Middle east crisis.

[Hamble]

That is the fault of Hamas terrorists. They confiscate the donations ( which are free) and they sell it to the civilians at a tremendous price, which many can’t afford.
Unfortunately it has always been that way. Those nearest the plate get the food.

I can only surmise that a lot of that donated emergency food has gone underground with the terrorists, who are making their way back up north.

There is food going into Gaza 24/7. There is a floating landing stage in the small port and the food is loaded onto trucks to take it South..

Israeli soldiers have found loads of food stacked away in those tunnels.

BBC has deigned to announce a new supply route into Gaza was opened yesterday.
Not on the website in print yet.

https://twitter.com/cogatonline/stat...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Alikado]

Oh dear,will you be affected by Radical Islamic Islamism?

Or American Imperialism.

[Hamble]

Or American Imperialism.

I don't get the link?

[sandGroundZero]

Thinking of Rafah as a final ‘red line’ is a mistake’ – the situation in Gaza is already beyond the bitter edges of human cruelty

Moustafa Bayoumi

…


So what’s going on here? For one thing, Netanyahu has announced authorizing the invasion of Rafah at least four times in the last two months, as the Times of Israel notes. Rafah, in other words, is being made to stand for something larger than itself.

While it’s always possible that an offensive could happen, the likes of which would bring further catastrophe to civilian life in Gaza, there could be other reasons behind Netanyahu’s swagger. This latest proclamation could be a sideshow designed to draw attention away from death by starvation that is already happening in the north of Gaza, as well as a distraction from the very real political problems Netanyahu is facing in Israel. Some 100,000 people rallied for his removal in demonstrations across several cities last Saturday. Global pressure has also been mounting on Israel since the IDF killed seven humanitarian workers for World Central Kitchen on 1 April.

Some observers further consider Netanyahu’s threats to invade Rafah as negotiating tactics to pressure Hamas to accept Israel’s terms for the release of hostages. Others believe his threats are ways to appease the extreme-right members of his ruling coalition. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu’s national security minister, recently stated that if Netanyahu “decides to end the war without a substantial attack on Rafah to defeat Hamas, he will not have a mandate to continue as premier”.

Mairav Zonszein, an astute observer of Israeli politics and senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, has also suggested that the threat of invasion could “be a ploy by Netanyahu to argue, further down the road, that the reason Israel wasn’t able to defeat Hamas entirely was US opposition to a major ground invasion in Rafah”.

…

Moustafa Bayoumi | Friday 12 April 2024
© 2024 Guardian News & Media Limited

[local]

Yet more C&P.

[Alikado]

I don't get the link?

The retaliation and escalation, I think we are probably nearer nuclear war than any time in the last 50 years.

[sandGroundZero]

Taoiseach Simon Harris (left) shakes hand with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in Dublin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Ireland and Spain have reiterated their intention to forge an alliance of countries that will soon recognise Palestine as a nation state.

[Hamble]

Yesterday.


Quote
"EU sanctions armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad for sexual violence on Oct. 7
Bloc says abuses by the Palestinian terrorists include ‘rape and subsequent murder of female minors, mutilation of corpses as well as genital mutilation"

This means along with the US

“Treasury, in coordination with our allies and partners, will continue to target Hamas’s facilitation networks wherever they operate, including in the cyber domain,” he said.

As a result of the sanctions, all property and interests in property of the designated people that are in the US or in the possession or control of US persons are blocked and must be reported to the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control."



https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-san...ence-on-oct-7/

[Hector]

Yesterday.


Quote
"EU sanctions armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad for sexual violence on Oct. 7
Bloc says abuses by the Palestinian terrorists include ‘rape and subsequent murder of female minors, mutilation of corpses as well as genital mutilation"

This means along with the US

“Treasury, in coordination with our allies and partners, will continue to target Hamas’s facilitation networks wherever they operate, including in the cyber domain,” he said.

As a result of the sanctions, all property and interests in property of the designated people that are in the US or in the possession or control of US persons are blocked and must be reported to the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control."



https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-san...ence-on-oct-7/

The property and interests of these 'designated people ' should be blocked and reported when it is held in any place that wants to ally with the civilized world.

[Hamble]

The property and interests these 'designated people ' should be blocked and reported when it is held in any place that wants to ally with the civilized world.

Despite the blockade on Gaza Radical Islamism is funding and supplying
Hamas and Radical Islamic Jihad terrorism.

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/a-loo...eapons-arsenal

[sandGroundZero]

Who on this Southport forum disputes the perpetrators of October 7th atrocities are despicable and criminal? Killing tens of thousands of Arab non-combatant civilians with Israel's vastly superior military capabilities is a murderously illiberal way to expect to find justice. Many posts since October 7 attempt to keep the focus on the terrorists, thereby diverting attention away from Israel's brutal reprisals. In so doing, they echo voices in Israel dehumanizing the Palestinians and suggesting they are essentially complicit in Hamas' atrocities! Ostensible proponents of a two-state solution who nevertheless imply the view that Palestinians brought this fate upon themselves by being somehow complicit in the crimes of Hamas / PIJ align themselves with the Israeli extremist elements including the likes of Ben Gvir, advocating pushing Palestinians out and establishing Jewish settlements throughout Eretz Yisrael, once for all!

[The PNP]

Reports coming to light this evening, of an Iranian drone launch.....Could we be seeing the beginnings of escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, with the Israelis?

[Alikado]

Reports coming to light this evening, of an Iranian drone launch.....Could we be seeing the beginnings of escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, with the Israelis?

World war?
Nuclear war?

[The PNP]

World war?
Nuclear war?

People need to chill, sit down together and settle things in an amicable fashion.

Death and destruction does nobody any good.

[local]

Israel has been goading for some time.