Israel says Hamas is starving hostages; Security Council members say Israel is starving Palestinians
Not only the Palestinians but most council members blamed the Israeli government and military for the two-month blockade of Gaza and failure to allow enough food into the conflict-wracked territory, where its health ministry has reported over 100 deaths from starvation, including many children.
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Dem, GOP reps defend Netanyahu Gaza plan following Israel trip
A pair of Democratic and Republican representatives appeared to endorse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan for Israel to take over Gaza on Sunday. Reps Rick Crawford, R-Ark., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., appeared on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream after conducting a joint visit to Israel. Netanyahu's office has faced some criticism after the nation's security cabinet voted on Friday to allow the IDF to fully take over Gaza. Crawford argued that such a plan would be safer for the remaining hostages in Hamas custody. "I think they have a greater risk of dying under the current conditions than they would if the IDF takes the action that they're talking about," Crawford said of the hostages. "Basically, Hamas is starving them. People talk about the starvation in Gaza. The starvation is taking place at the hands of Hamas, and it's primarily directed at the hostages that they are holding." Meanwhile, Gottheimer said a takeover by Israel is the "right answer," so long as the IDF involvement is truly temporary. He argued that Hamas must be crushed fully, but another governing structure must be put in place. "The prime minister made it very clear … that there is no intent for long-term occupation or annexation, which I think is the right answer," he said. "You need to make sure you crush Hamas, you get humanitarian aid in, and then you get a new governing structure in." Gottheimer added that he expects negotiations to lead to a "multinational Arab force" that keeps the peace in Gaza long-term. Netanyahu and his security cabinet met through the night before announcing on Friday that Israel planned to retake control over the entire Gaza territory and eventually hand it off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas. "The Security Cabinet has approved the Prime Minister's proposal for defeating Hamas. The IDF will prepare for taking control of Gaza City while distributing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population outside the combat zones," Netanyahu announced on X. The office said the Security Cabinet had adopted, by vote, five principles for concluding the war which include: the disarming of Hamas, the return of all hostages – living and deceased, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. The prospect of a full military occupation of Gaza comes 20 years after Israel's full disengagement from the enclave when the government forcibly removed around 8,600 Jewish residents from the area. Shortly after, Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections and staged a violent coup to overthrow the Palestinian Authority and seize control of the Gaza Strip.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Israel's Gaza plan risks 'another calamity,' UN official warns
A UN official on Sunday warned the Security Council that Israel's plans to control Gaza City risked "another calamity" with far-reaching consequences, as Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his goal was not to occupy the territory. The United Nations Security Council held a rare emergency weekend meeting after Israel said its military would "take control" of Gaza City in a plan approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu's security cabinet that sparked a wave of global criticism. "If these plans are implemented, they will likely trigger another calamity in Gaza, reverberating across the region and causing further forced displacement, killings, and destruction," UN Assistant Secretary General Miroslav Jenca told the Security Council. The UN's humanitarian office OCHA said 98 children had died from acute malnutrition since the start of the conflict in October 2023, with 37 of those deaths since July, according to Gaza's authorities. "This is no longer a looming hunger crisis -- this is starvation, pure and simple," said OCHA's coordination director Ramesh Rajasingham. Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said Sunday "over two million victims are enduring unbearable agony," calling Israel's plans for Gaza City "illegal and immoral," and for foreign journalists to be allowed into Gaza. Netanyahu announced on Sunday a plan to allow more foreign journalists to report inside Gaza -- accompanied by the Israeli military. - Sanctions calls - Britain, a close ally of Israel which nonetheless pushed for an emergency meeting on the crisis, warned the Israeli plan risked prolonging the conflict. "It will only deepen the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. This is not a path to resolution. It is a path to more bloodshed," said British deputy ambassador to the UN James Kariuki. But Netanyahu said Sunday his country was "talking in terms of a fairly short timetable because we want to bring the war to an end," as he insisted Israel did not want to occupy Gaza. Outside the meeting at UN headquarters in New York, a small but noisy protest calling for an end to the conflict was met by a large police presence. The United States, a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, accused those nations who supported Sunday's meeting of "actively prolonging the war by spreading lies about Israel." "Israel has a right to decide what is necessary for its security and what measure measures are appropriate to end the threat posed by Hamas," said US envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea. Israel's deputy ambassador to the UN Jonathan Miller said "pressure should not be placed on Israel, who suffered the most horrific attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, but on Hamas." Algeria's ambassador Amar Bendjama called for sanctions on Israel in response to its Gaza City plan. "The hour has come to impose sanctions on the enemy of humanity," he said. "If it was another country, you would have been imposing sanctions a long time ago," the Palestinian envoy Mansour said. gw/st
CNN
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On GPS: Two views on Israel's expansion of its Gaza war
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