JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Protesters at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip succeeded on Wednesday in preventing the entry of 51 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt. The protesters were criticizing the entry of aid as long as Hamas terrorists continue to hold Israeli and foreign hostages.
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Just nine out of the 60 trucks which arrived at the border got through to Gaza, according to a Ynet report. The remainder waited for six hours at the border before returning to Egypt, as protesters from the Tsav 9 and Combatants’ Mothers groups, among others, physically blocked the trucks from passing.
Another 106 trucks carrying aid crossed into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, but only after they had been screened by Israel at the Nitzana Crossing, according to the report.
“It’s always insane to aid the enemy, but it’s especially crazy to do it today, one day after they killed 24 of our soldiers and as they’re preparing to continue firing into our cities — even as they’re holding more than 130 of our hostages,” one protester, Reut Ben Haim, a mother of eight from Netivot, told The Times of Israel news site.
Currently, the US is pressuring Israel to increase aid to Gaza via the Ashdod port after the White House said on Friday that Israel would permit flour to enter through the port. The Red Cross claims that the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians living in tent cities in the southern Gaza strip are living in a “desperate humanitarian crisis.”
Allowing aid into Gaza “is vital for ensuring international support,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said during a meeting with relatives of hostages who challenged him on this point. Netanyahu may have also been referring to the Hague International Court, which is set to announce its interim decision on the war in Gaza on Friday, after South Africa demanded an immediate cessation of Israel’s actions, claiming that they amount to ‘genocide.’
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi accused Israel on Thursday of holding up aid to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages at the expense of the civilian population.
“This is a form of pressure on the Gaza Strip and its people over the conflict and the release of hostages. They are using this as a pressure tool on the people of the Strip,” Sissi told a gathering of military officers and state officials in Cairo.
Agreed! Stop helping the sworn enemy!!
Makes total sense.
Finally!! Yes, this does amount to pressure. Thats what most normal countries do. Exert pressure to get their hostages home and save their soldiers.
When the Gazaians voted hamas onto control they became part of it.
You reap what you sow Let them starve
They wanted war they wanted Jews killed
They reject a two state solution No mercy for terrorests.
It is indeed ridicules to give food to the enemy of the Jewish people when they murdered 1400 people of ours and are still holding 132 Jewish hostages in their prison. If the world is not willing to force the Hamas murderers to return our Jewish hostages to the Israeli government then we cannot allow the food to be distributed to enemies, when we are still fighting them in order to survive. So who do you want to help, the So-called Palestinian Murderers or the Jewish Hostages.