Israel’s Netanyahu’s government has been solely focused on taking out the Hamas operators that attcked and killed people randomly on Oct.7….
There is no doubt of the atrocities committed by those in Hamas…
But in their efforts?
The Israeli’s have created a humnairation crisis for humdreds of thousands of Palestians….
The World and increasingly American officals (And Israeli’s) want a solution to a situation that seems to have no end…
And maybe making more radical’s that Israel ever thought could be….
There IS also another situation in this….
Hamas is fighting to be the political force in Gaza…
Using violence to enforce it’s will as it has used against Israel…
Israel HAS moved to help some aid get into Gaza….
But Hamas uses violence to enforce its hold on the area. and to make Israel deal solely with them…
Here’s what we know:
The Gaza health ministry accused Israel of firing at hungry people in a “targeted attack.” The Israeli military blamed Palestinian gunmen for the bloodshed.
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Israeli and Gazan officials offer diverging accounts of deadly chaos around another aid convoy.
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Netanyahu calls Hamas’s demands ‘ludicrous’ and proceeds with plans for ground invasion in Rafah.
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The first ship bringing food to Gaza arrives.
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Schumer’s harsh words for Netanyahu reveal widening U.S.-Israel divisions, analysts say.
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The threat of unrest looms over Al Aqsa on the first Friday of Ramadan.
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The Palestinian Authority’s president names an insider to be prime minister….
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Eran Etzion, former deputy chief of Israel’s National Security Council, said the situation in northern Gaza highlights “the depths of the quagmire, the chaos and the inability to simply reinstate any kind of normalcy” after the conclusion of the most intensive stages of combat.
“Preventing famine is Israel’s responsibility legally — doing otherwise would be against the norms Israel is pretending to be upholding — but also strategically, in order to avoid international pressure,” Etzion added….
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Yet the chaos in the north raises larger questions that Israel’s government — torn between a security establishment that is demanding an exit strategy and a coalition whose far-right members hope to occupy the Strip — is not prepared to answer. In an interview with Politico on Sunday, Netanyahu again rejected the idea of handing over power to the Palestinian Authority, seen by Washington as the only viable alternative to Hamas….
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President Biden then announced the construction of a pier off the Gazan coast and the establishment of a maritime corridor for aid, which Israel would be responsible for securing.
“This was chaos of Israel’s own making,” said one of the administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations. “Ultimately, Israel is responsible for the mass hunger and lack of aid going in.”
Netanyahu has remained defiant. In a speech Tuesday to the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby, he said the international community cannot “support Israel destroying Hamas, then oppose Israel when it takes the actions necessary to achieve that goal.”..
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More than 150 aid trucks, mostly from the private sector, entered northern Gaza in the past two weeks, according to COGAT. Under new protocols implemented this month, “at the request of the U.S. government,” the IDF said in a statement, trucks are inspected at Israel’s southern Kerem Shalom border crossing, then accompanied by the IDF for some 30 miles on a road along the security fence. The trucks enter through a new crossing — called “96,” near Kibbutz Beeri — and continue unaccompanied to northern Gaza.
Six WFP trucks passed through the corridor on Tuesday, Hagari told international journalists Wednesday.
“We need to find together, international organizations and other countries, to create an alternative for the north,” he said. “We will flood Gaza with aid.”
But getting trucks into the Strip is only the first in a string of compounding challenges….
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Hamas warned this week that any Palestinians who would work alongside Israel to provide security for aid convoys would be targeted as collaborators.
Israel’s “attempt to communicate with the leaders and clans of some families to operate within the Gaza Strip is considered direct collaboration with the occupation and is a betrayal of the nation that we will not tolerate,” the Hamas-affiliated website al-Majd said, quoting an anonymous military official.
And Hamas is not the only obstacle.
“You cannot find a family that can exert that kind of control,” said an Israeli official familiar with postwar discussions, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject.
Israel has tried to partner with local clans several times — most recently in the 1980s — as alternatives to national movements like Fatah and the Palestinian Authority….
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Without a more feasible long-term strategy, said Milshtein, the former Israeli intelligence official, the Israeli military could find itself occupying Gaza indefinitely — which Washington has said is unacceptable.
“Israel is not working to find a partner with whom to work in Gaza, but instead is starting to make all kinds of arrangements with clans, with Palestinian businessmen … waiting for some sort of magic to happen,” he said. “The idea that any of it could work is an illusion.”….
I HAVE pointed out in this post that Hamas IS working against the shippment of aid to Gaza…..
This IS a on-going political third wheel in the conflict