Over the next 30 days, Blinken and Austin said Israel must allow 350 aid trucks a day into Gaza. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said none have entered the strip in October so far and most aid organisations estimate that around 700 trucks a day are needed to meet basic survival needs.
The language in the letter suggests a tougher line than Washington has previously taken, although White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby insisted in a call with journalists on Tuesday that “the letter was not meant as a threat”. Kirby also added that it simply reiterated a position the administration had communicated to Israel in the past.
“From a humanitarian perspective, a 30-day deadline is basically a death sentence, especially for those in northern Gaza that are facing famine,” Natasha Hall, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Middle East Eye.
With three weeks remaining until the US presidential election, Miller pushed back against suggestions that the timing of the letter was designed to shift attention to the new president-elect by the time the deadline arrives.
The US has spent much of the past year taking credit for what Palestinians say is highly inadequate aid reaching Gaza. The Biden administration attempted to build a humanitarian pier for goods off Gaza’s coast, but it failed and was dismantled due to weather conditions. It also tried airdrops, which proved deadly as recipients had to wade into deep water to retrieve the packages.
The same US that’s sponsoring this genocide?
oh no, not implications.
Israel response is we dare you to do something
You better give those mutilated maimed and starving people that you shot some food and help, or I swear to gosh, I’m gonna be so upset.
Upset enough to send another $18 billion of bombs and crib-seeking missiles, I’ll bet.
The US is warning that there are concepts of a punishment.
the softest of softballs
Oh no! Not another mildly harsh letter?!
There could be stern finger wagging. You don’t know!
Blinken has lost all credibility with Israel. Are we “real close to a peace deal” again?
Blinken has lost all credibility. Period.
Blinken is making this decisions and statements in accordance with the rest of the administration, in particular presiden Biden and Vice President, up for President election Kamala Harris.
Mac: …Now you’ve said that word “implication” a couple of times. Wha-what implication?
Dennis Reynolds: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to sleep with me. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her but she’s thinkin’ that they will.
But it sounds like she doesn’t want to have sex
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How do they give aid to someone they are trying to destroy?
The fact that this letter was leaked - unlike alleged similar communiques prior this year - screams that Israeli leadership doesn’t intend to comply, or wants to reinsert “leaving Israel defenseless ” into the US media cycle.
Biden proved with the JLOTS pier and aid airdrops that he wouldn’t couple significant aid distribution with continued weapons deliveries, and instead ran ineffectual workarounds to “be seen doing something”. Remember that 500 trucks a day was the purported minimum required aid in the spring/summer.
