The U.S. will not change its policy on arms transfers to Israel even though the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains dire, the State Department said Tuesday, the deadline the White House set for Israel to ramp up access to aid in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters the decision came as “Israel has taken a number of steps” outlined in a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Israeli counterparts last month. “We continue to be in discussion with Israel about the steps they took and other steps they need to take,” he said.
An average of just over 30 trucks a day have been let into Gaza in recent weeks, representing “just over six percent of the daily needs,” according to Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Policy is not to arm countries blocking humanitarian aid - this is just sparkling aiding genocide.
4 million from AIPAC to Biden, he is not serving the united states interests, he is serving the AIPAC lobby interests.
Just imagine of any other lobby group pay him 4 millions in donation and the media out cry.
The hostage that need to be free is the US government!
To all of the Harris supporters out there, this is one of the things that people didn’t like about her. She’s part of this problem, even now, after she lost.
OMG you guys. You got what you wanted. You punished the Democratic Party. What did you expect the outgoing administration to do in the last few weeks in power? Gaza is done.
People wanted to push the Democratic party to stop the genocide. Democrats collectively said they needed to support genocide to win the election. Kneeling unconditionally for Israel paid off. Trump sends his regards.
Now the election excuse does not work, you still to support genocide of an entire population to “get back at the anti-genocide people”? (Who are not the people who are being massacared)
The genocide should have been stopped within a single week. It went on for a month. It went on for a year. Every excuse is off the table and now the excuse is “it cannot be stopped with 6 weeks left of Democrats in power?”
Seriously, this is some Nazi shit. The only way you can type your comment is by being so far disconnected from the people being murdered that you do not even see them as human.
These comments are hysterical. Do some of you actually think Gaza affected the elections in any way? The average American was focused on shit here in the US.
Outside of self important echo chambers like here, most Americans while sympathetic to Gaza, were 99% focused on the economy, supporting/stopping Trump, or their personal issues.
And now? Every American with common sense is just focused on surviving and hoping they’ll actually BE elections in 4 years…
If Trump even does a third of the shit he wants to. The US will collapse into a third world country or become the next Reich.
Yes. The genocide killed any progressive momentum for the Democrats. Harris popularity went through the roof in polling when she was appointed. People thought she might be willing to stop the genocide back then. And stand for something.
Blaming it all on the economy is such cope.
The US is a fucking joke. Biden should be ashamed of himself
gestures vaguely at the last week in particular
Yeah let’s focus on Biden….
Yes, let’s. Or is he not president anymore? Who the fuck else should we blame
I don’t think Biden knows he’s president half the time. Trump isn’t gonna change anything though, so don’t get too excited. It’s up to someone else to stop it.
Great. If he’s incompetent, Harris should have stepped up long ago or even today or even tomorrow to boot his ass for the next month.
But I don’t think you’re seriously suggesting that. Are you?
I don’t think any of them are competent.
Why would you assume I thought Trump was going to change anything?
Oh, he’s gonna change things. Not for the better, imo
I agree. It’s just not relevant to this discussion
You’re the one who said his name.
Remember when Joe Biden had them make an “aid pier” that was only really used to launch a massacre from before it collapsed?
Americans, the bombs getting used to vaporize the children of Gaza are paid for with your taxes.
Did you know an American soldier died last week from an injury accident during the aid pier?
Oof. Imagine dying for a vanity project to white wash genocide.
Unfortunately, we have our own shit to worry about, like work camps and the upcoming trump dictatorship. You’ll need to get the EU to help Gaza now.
The point is that the US was never really helping the people of gaza, just enabling the people murdering them.
I think that point was made years ago.
Agreed, though that’s also why I don’t think anyone is expecting the EU to be particularly helpful either
