{"id":19464,"date":"2024-04-05T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/u-s-seeks-results-after-israel-promises-more-gaza-aid-routes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:45:33","slug":"u-s-seeks-results-after-israel-promises-more-gaza-aid-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/u-s-seeks-results-after-israel-promises-more-gaza-aid-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Seeks \u2018Results\u2019 After Israel Promises More Gaza Aid Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/05\/multimedia\/05mideast-1-ljkz\/05mideast-1-ljkz-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"U.S. Seeks \u2018Results\u2019 After Israel Promises More Gaza Aid Routes\" title=\"U.S. Seeks \u2018Results\u2019 After Israel Promises More Gaza Aid Routes\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">World leaders and humanitarian groups said on Friday that Israel must show concrete results after it reacted to growing pressure from the United States by announcing it would open more aid routes into the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations has warned that a famine is looming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a news conference in Brussels on Friday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken welcomed the new aid routes, calling them \u201cpositive developments,\u201d but said that the United States was watching to see if Israel would make it a priority to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. One measure of Israel\u2019s commitment, he said, will be \u201cthe number of trucks that are actually getting in on a sustained basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe real test is results, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking to see in the coming days and the coming weeks,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cReally, the proof is in the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Germany\u2019s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, called on Israel to open the new aid routes \u201cquickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel said early Friday that it had agreed to open the Erez crossing to allow aid into northern Gaza, where hunger is particularly severe; to use the Israeli port of Ashdod to direct more aid into the enclave; and to significantly increase deliveries from Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It made the announcement hours after President Biden suggested in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that further American support for Israel would depend on its taking action to protect civilians and aid workers in Gaza and to alleviate the hunger crisis there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While some Gazans said they had heard recently that more aid was flowing through existing routes, it was still not nearly enough to feed their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are clinging to life, and that\u2019s it,\u201d said Mohammad al-Masri, a 31-year-old accountant. He was sheltering with his family in a tent in Rafah, a city crowded with hundreds of thousands of uprooted Gazans that Israel has promised to invade in its campaign to destroy Hamas. He said his family was able to buy some canned meats and vegetables and obtain rice and beans from a charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe aid doesn\u2019t always get to those who are displaced, except for very little,\u201d he said Friday in a message on WhatsApp. \u201cMostly it all gets sold in the market,\u201d he added, echoing what many Gazans have said for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Friday was a holy day for Muslims observing Ramadan, a day that would normally bring increased religious observance and preparations for Eid al-Fitr festivities marking the end of Ramadan. But Mr. al-Masri said there was none of that in the tent encampment he was living in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMost people fast because there is nothing to eat anyway,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t feel like this was Ramadan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the start of the war, Israel has limited aid entering Gaza to two tightly controlled border crossings at Kerem Shalom and Rafah. Aid groups have said they face enormous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/03\/20\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-aid-delivery.html\" title=\"\">challenges<\/a> trying to move supplies through those crossings, including lengthy Israeli inspections and the risk of Israeli strikes on their workers in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Global outrage at Israel reached new heights this week after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/02\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-aid-workers-killed.html\" title=\"\">Israeli drone strikes killed six foreign nationals and a Palestinian<\/a> who were working for the charity group World Central Kitchen and traveling in three vehicles in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the attack, the World Central Kitchen suspended its operations in Gaza, and other humanitarian groups and officials from the United States, Britain and other countries said Israel must do more to ensure the safety of aid workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The World Food Program, an arm of the United Nations, said on Friday that it would ask Israel to clarify security and logistical arrangements for the new routes \u201cso we can move swiftly to exploit any new opportunity to feed more Gazans<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>as famine takes hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli officials did not immediately make clear when the new routes would open or how much aid could pass through them. The Erez border crossing into northern Gaza in particular could present logistical hurdles since most of the humanitarian aid has been stored in Egypt, on the opposite side of the coastal enclave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said that the new measures were simply \u201cnot enough\u201d and that \u201curgent efforts are required to immediately end hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGazan children and infants are dying of malnutrition,\u201d he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlesMichel\/status\/1776225157520003129\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on<\/a> social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Riyad H. Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the U.N., pointed out that Israel\u2019s reaction to the deaths of the World Central Kitchen workers was starkly different from its reaction to the deaths of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noted that Israel swiftly investigated the attack on the charity group\u2019s convoy and then removed two officers and reprimanded three senior commanders for their roles in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWho will be held accountable for all the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed?\u201d he said, alluding to the more than 32,000 Gazans who have been killed, according to the territory\u2019s health officials. \u201cAre our lives not worthy of holding accountable those who murder us and kill us in large numbers?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gilad Erdan, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, expressed condolences for the deaths of the World Central Kitchen workers but said the strikes on their convoy were a \u201ctragic mistake made due to Hamas\u2019s cynical modus operandi to exploit civilian infrastructure and vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIsrael never targets civilians deliberately \u2014 never \u2014 let alone aid workers carrying out crucial work,\u201d he told the council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The council debate in New York played out as the U.N.\u2019s top human rights panel in Geneva adopted a resolution on Friday that called on all countries to stop supplying arms to Israel, warning of possible violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The panel, the Human Rights Council, approved the resolution by a vote of 28 to 6, with 13 states abstaining. The United States and Germany, Israel\u2019s biggest arms suppliers, voted against the measure, though the U.S. ambassador to the council, Mich\u00e8le Taylor, criticized Israel\u2019s prosecution of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIsrael has not done enough to mitigate civilian harm,\u201d Ms. Taylor said before the vote, calling for an immediate cease-fire and urging Mr. Netanyahu to negotiate a deal with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s representative on the panel, Meirav Eilon Shahar, condemned the passage of the resolution as a \u201cvery dark day in the history of the council.\u201d Noting that the resolution did not denounce Hamas for attacking Israel on Oct. 7, she said the panel had \u201cturned a blind eye\u201d to acts of violence against Israelis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later, the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement noting that the council had disregarded the supply of weapons to Hamas from Iran and its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ultimately, many world leaders have said that a cease-fire would be the surest way to get more aid into Gaza and to free hostages still being held there. But talks aimed at reaching such a deal have been stalled for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an effort to help the parties reach an agreement, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, was expected to travel to Cairo on Saturday to meet with his Israeli counterpart, David Barnea, and with Qatari and Egyptian officials, who have been mediating with Hamas, according to two people briefed on the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Nick Cumming-Bruce<!-- -->, <!-- -->Matina Stevis-Gridneff<!-- -->, <!-- -->Gaya Gupta<!-- -->, <!-- -->Johnatan Reiss<!-- --> and <!-- -->Julian E. 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