Netanyahu PLAYS DIRTY AGAIN To Collapse Gaza Ceasefire!

Right, so aid has supposedly been getting into Gaza as a result of the ceasefire Benjamin Netanyahu was forced into agreeing to, that he is desperately trying to find a way out of in order to avoid being toppled as Prime Minister, his government brought down by hard right fanatical coalition partners and looking at the aid situation now, it’s not hard to see where he could be playing a role in still preventing so much of what is genuinely needed from getting into Gaza.
It looked good at the start of the ceasefire, road trains of trucks carrying aid getting into the besieged Gaza Strip, but what has got in and more importantly what hasn’t should be raising red flags and the number of trucks actually getting in carrying goods has been far less than what is actually needed. The most critical resources are the items most desperately needed that are not getting in and a cynic might look at this situation and think, well if Israel plans on going back to committing further atrocities in Gaza, then so much of what they are allowing in, is the sort of stuff that perhaps they can afford to lose, and the stuff there are still the most shortages of, is the same sort of stuff Israel would perhaps hate to lose themselves. Israel have some explaining to do and nobody is asking them about this.
Right so, that was Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reporting from Northern Gaza on the shortages that people there are experiencing, having been able to return there, the most heavily attacked part of the Gaza Strip as that is. She spoke of the endless queues for bread, the queues to the community kitchens, but that the biggest struggle, the biggest shortage is where it comes to water and of all things to be getting into the Gaza Strip as a matter of priority, you’d think water would be at the front of the queue, yet massive shortages of it, beg huge questions of Israel and why water is in such short supply and in the north itself there is apparently zero access to it. What could be important to get into northern Gaza - and we know trucks have got in there now – than getting water in? Apparently they haven’t got any there 11 days into the ceasefire and I appreciate it’s not been 11 days since people were allowed back into the north across the Nevatim Corridor that Israel built across Gaza Strip, splitting it into two, but aid could have been arriving in the north before the people did, so what gives?
As Khoudary said there, without water, life isn’t possible. Across Gaza more than 75% of wells have been destroyed by the IDF, I can only presume Hamas were hiding at the bottom of them, or they’ve learned to weaponise water, but this is worst of all in the north and it’s interesting that Khoudary made mention of UNRWA distributing wheat in the north, UNRWA having been outlawed now by Israel, a ban that came into effect on the 30th of January, because aid to Palestinians and all of the crucial work UNRWA have done in Gaza and the West Bank is the last thing Israel really wants to be providing, and so the water shortage really should be raising suspicions and the reason I bring up UNRWA in relation to this is that their social media account shared some brilliant pictures this morning – past the point they got banned - of the fact that their people have managed to get the water pump in Jabalia in northern Gaza working again, hopefully they can do so for other pumps as well whilst they are still there, but they will inevitably shut down shortly because of Israel’s ban on them.
Middle East Monitor journalist and Gaza resident Motasem Dalloul has also been on social media to say he has also managed to repair a water well near his own house and is offering water to people who have returned to their homes as well, so the determination to rebuild and regain their lives is strong as is he solidarity.
Another organisation has also been getting water where it is needed as Israel seemingly ensures they do not and unlike UNRWA they’re not outlawed yet and seem determined to get it in where it needed come what may, a tweet from the Norwegian Refugee Council reading:
‘Today, we provided drinking water for 15,000 people in Jabalia refugee camp in North Gaza. Many Palestinians told our staff that this was the first water they received in three days. Since the ceasefire, we’re expanding our response and reaching areas that had been off-limits.’
Water is not the only shortage item that is essential if people are going to begin rebuilding their lives from the rubble that was once their neighbourhoods though, as this excerpt from The Cradle explains:
‘The number of tent trucks that entered the Gaza Strip is much less than what is needed and does not exceed 208. No temporary mobile homes were brought into the north or south of the strip. About two-thirds of the trucks that entered the Gaza Strip carry food supplies. Around 197 fuel trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, but neither the civil defence, nor the municipalities, nor the electricity companies are able to benefit from them,” the sources added.
They went on to say that no reconstruction materials, machinery, or equipment required to clear rubble and search for bodies had been sent. Thousands of bodies remain trapped under buildings and homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.
“None of the solar energy supplies have been brought in despite the urgent need for them. Not enough medical equipment and supplies have entered the Gaza Strip’s hospitals,” they stated.
Over 75 percent of northern Gaza’s wells have been damaged, causing a severe water crisis. The sources added that no funds have been transferred into the strip's banks despite the critical financial shortage.
Gaza’s Civil Defence announced on Friday that 85 percent of its facilities and equipment were wiped out by the Israeli war, calling on the ceasefire mediators to pressure Israel into allowing the entry of supplies into the enclave. “Since the start of the ceasefire, we have received no less than 2,750 direct calls and reports from the families of the martyrs, appealing for a response to retrieve the bodies and remains of their sons.”
As part of the ceasefire agreement, a minimum of 600 humanitarian aid trucks are meant to enter Gaza per day.
Several NGOs recently warned that Israel is continuing to fail in improving Gaza’s access to humanitarian aid – despite orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). ‘
All of these shortages, combined with the banning of the most high profile aid distribution agency in Gaza, UNRWA, ought to be sparking concerns, that not enough of the right aid is getting in and it’s a point few are addressing.
Banning UNRWA hampers distribution on yet more trumped up allegations of working with Hamas, because nobody knows Gaza like they do save the people that live there and in and of itself adds to the humanitarian crisis that is ongoing. Before the genocide 80% of Gaza depended on UNRWA and taking them out of the equation on top of denying essentials like water should be causing alarm and it just doesn’t seem to be, as should the threat this poses in and of itself to the ceasefire and further unrest can easily be sparked as a result, which I’m sure is what Israel would love to see happen from the Gaza side, Netanyahu desperate for anything he can use as justification to end the ceasefire early. Israel are still screwing the people of Gaza over and it needs calling out.
Of course if Israel try and propagandise their way out of this though, by laying the blame all on Hamas, they might get called out for that by a source a little closer to home. Israel’s attempts to combine modern technology with their Hasbara propaganda campaigns has backfired spectacularly with hilarious results as a home made AI turned pro Palestine! Get all the details on a much cheerier story in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe before you do so though if you haven’t already to ensure you don’t miss out on all new daily content and it all helps support the channel as well, so is very much appreciated and I will hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.