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Gaza aid stuck as Egypt says Israel not cooperating (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world
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Cairo says the Rafah crossing, a potentially vital opening for desperately-needed supplies into the Israeli-besieged Palestinian enclave, is not officially closed but was made inoperable due to Israeli air strikes on the Gaza side.

As Israel's bombardment and siege of Gaza has intensified, the territory's 2.3 million residents have been left without power, pushing health and water services to the brink of collapse, with fuel for hospital generators running low.

"There is an urgent need to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza," Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters, adding that talks with Israel had not been fruitful.

"Until now the Israeli government has not taken a position on opening the Rafah crossing from the Gaza side to allow the entrance of assistance and exit of citizens of third countries."

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[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Slightly off point, but I just turned on the news stations for the first time concerning this whole mess. On ABC? They were interviewing a Palestinian Woman from University. She said she wasn't leaving even if they did open the boarder. Someone else i know heard others say the same thing but from a young man and older people. They essentially said that of they left, they would be giving Isreal what it wanted. Flip to CNN. They have live footage of the boarder crossing. Maybe 100 people were waiting there.

Of course, any cilivians wanting out should be able to get out, and maybe it's all just propaganda, but, it seems like most all want to stay, regardless of whether the boarder opens up or not.

[–] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a fair chance they believe if they leave, Israel will never allow them back.

If that's true, I understand why they want to stay.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With the end goal of taking and settling that land, a mass exodus is exactly what Israel has wanted for quite some time. Palestinians are treated like squatters and are being strong armed out of their homes en masse under the threat of starvation and/or death.

[–] laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

The right to return is like a major demand of the Palestine movements. Of course this is something Israel is never going to willingly allow.

For one an influx of foreign moderate Palestinians bringing foreign money and foreign connections would seriously bolster the power and palatability of a Palestinian state.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

The problem isn't people not being able to leave (I mean that's a problem too but not the immediate problem); it's aid not entering.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a lot of people are not going to leave. They know that if the leave they’re never going to be going home.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I (guy on the Internet with no expertise in the subject) suspect the only crossing Israel will allow is Palestinians crossing into Egypt.