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The international community has so far failed to fulfill its basic humanitarian duties and protect civilians in Gaza amid the continued Israeli bombing campaign, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said on Thursday. Humanitarian aid pledged by national governments and various relief organizations is barely reaching Gaza residents, he added.

Israel’s “heavy bombardments” are “getting worse,” even in parts of the enclave that were supposed to be safe, and aid “is barely trickling in,” Griffiths wrote in a statement published on X (formerly known as Twitter).

“The rules of war are clear: civilians must be protected and have the essentials to survive, wherever they are and whether they choose to move or stay,” the official stated, in an apparent reference to Israel’s call on Gaza residents to move south amid the continued air raids.

Griffiths, who is also the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, has previously criticized Israel’s order to evacuate, saying it “defies the rules of war and basic humanity.” Forcing “scared and traumatized civilians” out of their homes amid intense bombardments “without even a pause in the fighting and without humanitarian support, is dangerous and outrageous,” he said on October 13.

On Thursday, the UN official reiterated that “the world itself is failing to meet the bare entitlements of a part of humanity,” referring to Gaza.

His words came as the international body had to scale back its humanitarian aid operations in the Palestinian enclave due to a shortage of fuel. West Jerusalem has barred fuel from being imported into Gaza since the October 7 attack by Hamas, arguing that it could be used for offensive military purposes by the Palestinian militant group.

According to the BBC, fuel was expected to run out at some point on Tuesday, but some aid has managed to enter Gaza via Egypt, including food, water, and medical supplies.

In a post on X on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a satellite photograph that it claims shows storage tanks containing 500,000 liters of fuel in Gaza. “Ask Hamas if you can have some,” the post said.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/585907-world-failing-gaza-un/

 

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As the death toll in the Gaza Strip nears 7,000, including 2,700 children, the US president is doubling down on attempts to whitewash the devastation caused by Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign

News Desk

Biden makes light of soaring Gaza death toll, calls deaths of innocents ‘price to pay’

 

US President Joe Biden on 25 October said that he has “no notion” that the Health Ministry in Gaza, journalists, and humanitarian groups are telling the truth about the soaring number of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip 18 days into Israel’s indiscriminate carpet bombing campaign.

 

“What they say to me is I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,” Biden said Wednesday during a joint press conference with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

 

“I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,” the US president added. However, he did not explain why he believes Palestinians lie about the genocide unfolding in Gaza.

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https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/10/26/biden-makes-light-of-soaring-gaza-death-toll-calls-deaths-of-innocents-price-to-pay/

 

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A Western disease of cause-and-effect amnesia     By Gregory Clark

 

The savage Israeli reaction to the suggestion by UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, that some Hamas actions may be a response to 56 years of Israeli repression was extraordinary. We have long known about Israeli sensitivity to criticism. But this brings things to a new level. Cannot Israel accept even some of its own responsibility for the Hamas response?

To be fair, insensitivity to cause and over-sensitivity to effect is not exclusively an Israel domain. Many others have travelled in the same route. Few in the West seem interested, for example, in the causes for Russian military action against Ukraine – among them the breaking of the 2014 Minsk agreements and the eight years of semi-Nazi Ukranian attack against Russian speakers in the Donbas.

Or the pretexts invented to justify the illegal (non-UN approved) NATO bombing of Serbia in 1995 or the NATO 2011 bombing of Libya.

Go back to the Vietnam War and we find that many in the West managed to forget the 1954 peace agreement for Vietnam that came first, not to mention the many thousands killed by the 1967 CIA sponsored Phoenix assassination campaign.

Or the large-scale killings of leftwing Koreans, (some say 300,000), in South Korea that preceded the 1950 Korean War.

In every case we are not talking just about the cause-effect amnesia that afflicts our hardcore Western militarists when their nations set out on one or other of their crusader missions against imagined enemies.

I am talking also about the pundits, the mainstream media, the conventional wisdom and the mass hysteria that underlies much of what passes for foreign policy and public opinion in the mainly Anglosaxon-dominated West.

In Israel it is a visceral hatred of Palestinians that allows them to blot out 56 years of cruel history and ignore the Palestinian natural desire for revenge.

In the minds of that otherwise intelligent but immature and newly born nation, Israel, the exaggerated details of the results they cause are allowed totally to obscure the horrors that caused those results – the 56 years of continual abuse and occasional massacres of the Palestinians with their thousands of civilisation behind them.

National maturity seems to be the deciding factor. The brave wisdom of a civilised European, António Guterres excels by far the naive but destructive babblings of a Boris Johnston, Liz Truss, or Trump, or the illogicalities of an Anthony Blinken ranting on about respecting international rules when his own nation blatantly denies his own nation’s agreements to accept Taiwan as part of China.

The contrast between the sophisticated policies and response of a China, with its 5,000 years of history, to the heated rhetoric and insults of a brutally ignorant US and a pipsqueak Australia, 5,000 miles away which still lacks the maturity to handle to its own once brutally suppressed indigenous minority, (China manages 50 of them quite well) says it all.

It’s time we all grew up.

https://johnmenadue.com/a-western-disease-of-cause-and-effect-amnesia-afflicts-israel/

 

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