After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza
After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza
“This will help save lives,” the White House stated in its readout of the call.
(May 24, 2024 / JNS)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi agreed to restore the flow of aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during a telephone call with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.
Egypt halted U.N. aid deliveries into the southern city of Rafah after the Israeli military took control of the Gazan side of the Egypt-Gaza border. In Friday’s call, el-Sisi agreed to let the aid flow through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing near the Egyptian border.
“President Biden welcomed the commitment from President el-Sisi to permit the flow of U.N.-provided humanitarian assistance from Egypt through the Kerem Shalom crossing on a provisional basis for onward distribution throughout Gaza,” the White House stated in its readout of the call. “This will help save lives.”
The Egyptian readout of the call said that the deliveries would consist of “humanitarian aid and fuel” and would continue “temporarily until a legal mechanism is reached to reoperate the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side.”
And is Israel going to allow the aid in, and distribute it to Palestinians?
Nope. And Sisi knows it. That's the only reason why that awful dictator agreed to it in the first place.
He knows it won't sour his relationship with the fascist apartheid regime next door since it won't save any Palestinian lives, so it's pretty much just free brownie points for him and Biden.
If it's going through an Israeli checkpoint on the way, it will not reach Gazans. Guaranteed. Same shit happened with the stupid fucking pier. You cannot rely on the perpetrators of genocide to help ameliorate the genocide! This is nothing more than an attempt to soften Biden's image in regards to supporting this genocide. Only dopes will fall for it.
small amount of biscuits
And i knew it wasn't going to be a lot though the pier but didn't realize it was this low
American officials hope the pier at maximum capacity can bring the equivalent of 150 truckloads of aid to Gaza each day. That’s a fraction of the 600 truckloads of food, emergency nutritional treatments and other supplies that USAID says are needed each day to bring people in Gaza back from the start of famine and address the humanitarian crisis brought on by the seven-month-old Israel-Hamas war.
I don’t think there’s Israeli citizens at this checkpoint to psychically block the aid. The IDF might not let it through, though.
Egypt signed away control of their border as part of their peace agreement with Israel lmao.
Sisi has no jurisdiction, and even if he did Israel already controls the crossing, meaning he'd have to setup a new one and send military power to keep it up.
Of course he's just a slimy [100 adjective long insult] who sucks [another 100 long adjective insult] so there's a 0% chance that'll ever happen.
I'm not even sure why Biden even bothered because everyone already knows this. Unless he thinks he can get Israel to comply somehow.
I'm not even sure why Biden even bothered because everyone already knows this.
Because a lot of people actually don't and will likely fall for this brazen PR stunt.
Rafah is the only Gazan border crossing that isn’t controlled by Israel
Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1982, which saw the Jewish state withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula that it had captured from Egypt in 1967.
Israel then opened the Rafah crossing, which it controlled until it withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Between then and Hamas’ takeover of Gaza in 2007, the crossing was controlled by the European Union, which worked closely with Egyptian officials.
Between 2005 and 2007, some 450,000 passengers used the crossing with an average of about 1,500 people per day.
The Rafah crossing has since been tightly controlled, with limited access and lengthy bureaucratic and security processes required of Palestinians wishing to cross into Egypt.
Travelers require an exit permit from Hamas and an entry permit from Egypt
News
"You send aid, we keep funding the genocide. Deal?"
-Bidet