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With Kerem Shalom to reopen, US sets sites on re-entry of commercial goods into Gaza — officials tell ToI
[IsraelTimes] After the cabinet voted earlier today to reopen its Kerem Shalom Crossing for humanitarian aid to be able to enter Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... directly through Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the war, two US and Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel that the Biden administration has set its sites on its next ask from Israel: to allow commercial goods into the Strip. Since Hamas  ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...’s October 7 onslaught, only basic humanitarian goods have — food, water, medicine and fuel — have been entering Gaza. The officials tell The Times of Israel that the US aims to get Gaza’s albeit limited economy up and running again after it effectively stopped operating on October 7. In the middle of a war zone?? Nuts. Both the US and Israeli officials say that Jerusalem is currently resistant to the idea, but the US official expresses optimism that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will come around, as it did on reopening Kerem Shalom, allowing in fuel and allowing in humanitarian trucks from Egypt after initially rejecting all three requests."The Israelis understand that the more aid that gets in, the more time they’ll have to continue operations in Gaza," the US official says. The Biden administration’s point being to “Yes, but —“ Israel’s war against Hamas step by pressured step into Israel’s surrender Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-17 |
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