Times of Israel
US President Donald Trump says he believes a ceasefire will be reached in Gaza ‘within the next week.’
Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office that he just spoke with some of the individuals involved in trying to secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
He then pivots to highlight the recent US decision to donate $30 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been distributing boxes of food in Gaza from militarized zones in the Strip for the past month.
‘It’s a terrible situation that’s going in Gaza… and we’re supplying a lot of money and a lot of food to that area. We have to,’ Trump says.
‘We’re involved because people are dying,’ he says. ‘I look at those crowds of people that have no food, no anything.’
He then laments that some of the aid is being stolen by ‘bad people,’ but he says that the new GHF system is ‘pretty good.’
However, GHF has been marred by near-daily mass casualty incidents in which the IDF has opened fire at Palestinians trying to reach their distribution sites.
Trump says other countries should be helping address the aid crisis. Other than the US, countries have stayed away from GHF, due to its controversial mechanism that has required Gazans to walk long distances and cross IDF lines in order to pick up food.
On the other hand, the UN-backed mechanisms in Gaza have been marred by looting. Aid groups say the issue would be addressed if Israel increased the amount of aid in Gaza, so that demand would go down.
An average of just 56 trucks a day have been entering Gaza over the last month — far below the hundreds per day that aid groups say is needed to address the dire need.
Comment check
The “Israelis” deserve to be treated in precisely the same way they have treated the Palestinians. Cut off their water, power, and food. Destroy their hospitals and schools. Machine-gun them when they seek food.
ed note–excellent point, and something that is already sanctified within the laws of Moses and Torah Judah-ism.
What was it that they are taught?
‘An eye for an eye’
Small wonder Israel is machine-gunning unarmed people in food lines! Gotta get as many as they can before the….well….never mind.
Israel ALWAYS violates cease-fires. Regardless of the situation, Israel ALWAYS disregards. Silly things like rules, laws, humanity, etc., don’t apply to ‘god’s chosen’. And like their slaughter in Gaza, no one in any position to do anything says or does anything. And in Palestine, there’s no one ‘ceasing’ on the other side; Israel’s FAVORITE enemy; unarmed, female, and kids.
PS: ‘War’?
Shooting unarmed people being starved is ‘war’?