US gives Israel 30 days to boost aid to Gaza or risk some military aid cuts

[BeyondGeography]

Source: BBC

The US has written to Israel’s government giving it 30 days to urgently boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or face having some US military assistance cut off. The letter amounts to the strongest known written warning from the Biden administration to its ally, coming as Israel’s attack on northern Gaza has seen mass forced displacements of civilians to the south.

The letter - sent two days ago - was signed by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. It says the US has “deep concern” about “the deteriorating humanitarian situation”. It adds that Israel last month denied or impeded nearly 90% of humanitarian movements between north and south Gaza. It states that evacuation orders have forced 1.7 million people into a narrow coastal strip where they are at “high risk of lethal contagion”.

The letter demands “urgent and sustained actions by your government this month to reverse this trajectory”.
It says Israel “must, starting now and within 30 days” act on a series of concrete measures to boost aid supplies, adding that failure may “have implications for US policy”. It cites US laws which can prohibit military assistance to countries that impede delivery of American humanitarian aid. It calls on Israel to end the “isolation of northern Gaza” by reaffirming that there will be no “no Israeli government policy of forced evacuation of civilians” from north to south.


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[underpants]

1. Yeah and how about stop bombing them back to ruins?

[Bayard]

2. Do it now

Stop enabling genocide.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. US Govt. informs Israel that if the humanitarian situation in Gaza needs to improve within 30 days

Bibi needs to stop being an asshole

Link to tweet

[DeepWinter]

4. Translation:

"US gives Israel 30 days to boost aid to Hamas who will never give it to civilians, but we'll pretend otherwise so we look good."

[Butterflylady]

6. It's not about "looking good".

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Are you really that opposed to the Biden administration?

Just stop and think what you're accusing them of.

[iemanja]

10. You are accusing the Biden administration of working for Hamas?

That is a shameful statement.

[moniss]

5. The Israeli government is currently deciding on whether to

implement the proposed right wing policy of ordering an evacuation of the north of Gaza and then cutting off all food and water to whoever remains. Despite that very tactic being specifically spelled out as a violation of international law. At the same time they claim they have never been about violating international law.

[maxsolomon]

8. In 30 days, Netanyahu will know if it gives a fuck what the Biden Admin wants

Or whether it will have carte blanche to tighten the screws.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. US tells Israel to improve Gaza humanitarian situation or risk military aid

Link to tweet

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-gives-israel-30-days-improve-gazas-humanitarian-situation-or-risk-aid-reports-2024-10-15/

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The United States has told Israel it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S. military aid, U.S. officials said, in the strongest such warning since Israel's war with Hamas began a year ago.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials on Sunday demanding concrete measures to address the worsening situation in the Palestinian enclave amid a renewed Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Failure to do so could impact U.S. policy, said the letter, which was first reported by Israeli News 12.

"We are particularly concerned that recent actions by the Israeli government ... are contributing to an accelerated deterioration in the conditions in Gaza," said a copy of the letter posted by an Axios reporter on X.

The letter cited restrictions Israel was imposing, including those on commercial imports, the denial of most humanitarian movements between northern and southern Gaza, and "burdensome and excessive" restrictions on what goods can enter Gaza.

[The Mouth]

11. Give them 30 days to release every last hostage.

I won't give the slightest damn until every hostage is released and ideally every member or supporter of Hamas is dead.

[iemanja]

12. or what?

That's a toothless threat. The US doesn't give military aid to Hamas. There is no parallel. What do you want the US to do? Bomb Hamas and kill even more civilians? Evidently so. Fuck getting involved in that war. We're up to our necks already.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Frontline: A Year of War

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A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians
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