wat0n wrote: OCHA figures do not come from Israel. They come from Palestine.
This seems incorrect. Israel has controlled Gaza’s borders for decades. The IDF would shoot Hamas if they showed up to count containers.
So prove it. Link and a quote.
And I will note OCHA has not denounced IDF soldiers have confiscated anything after crossing into Gaza. They shouldn't have since trucks have already been inspected when they cross. If they did at any relevant scale, you'd also see satellite imagery of such goods since they'd occupy quite a bit of physical space.
No one made any claims about confiscations.
The claim is that the IDF and Israeli government are turning away so many trucks that many parts of Gaza are suffering from famine.
You will repeat that the amount of trucks has been awesome since December, and I will once again post several articles showing that OCHA still claims not enough food is coming in, and you will insist that a table you showed weeks again says something it does not.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6 ... s-a-weaponAll relevant official authorities and competent UN and international institutions should officially declare famine in the Gaza Strip in light of the current rapid spread of famine and the rates of acute malnutrition and its expansion geographically and among all groups, especially among children, said 70 organisations in a joint statement on Saturday.
Food insecurity is increasing throughout the Gaza Strip due to Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people, which the organisations said is part of a larger crime of genocide.
The organisations stated that food security levels have significantly declined as a result of the Israeli army's ground operation in Rafah City, south of the Gaza Strip, which began on 7 May and was preceded the day before by blocking the entry of humanitarian aid trucks through the Rafah crossing. Thousands of trucks on the other side of the Rafah crossing have been at a standstill for weeks and are inaccessible to the residents whose lives depend on them due to Israel's decision to starve the people of the Gaza Strip, close the crossings. and prevent the entrv of aid.
They called on Israel to act immediately to implement the precautionary measures announced by the International Court of Justice regarding the opening of the Rafah crossing in order to provide basic services and much-needed humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.
The majority of goods entering the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom (Kerem Abu Salem) crossing are intended for merchants, and the residents, many of whom have lost their livelihoods, must purchase them. Despite the limited aid provided by Israel, it is insufficient to meet the increasing needs of the growing number of displaced people in the south.
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It is unclear what was ordered. There are two ways to interpret the order, 1) that the order is for Israel to stop the Rafah offensive, 2) that the order is for Israel to stop the Rafah offensive but only insofar it violates the Genocide Convention.
The accompanying declarations emphasize this lack of clarity as two judges interpret it as 2) and one interprets it as 1).
It is irrelevant since the IDF and Israeli government are not stopping in any fashion and seemingly have not followed Geneva Convention rules at any point in this war.
So the IDF and Israeli government are breaking international law no matter which interpretation is used.
Furthermore, the order also compels Israel to maintain the Rafah border crossing open which suggests Israel is not being ordered to withdraw from Rafah as it's not clear how can Israel maintain the border crossing open without any military presence there.
The border crossings operated without an IDF military presence until just a few weeks ago.
It was the IDF military presence that shut the crossing down.
So it is very clear that Israel and Egypt can maintain the border crossing open without any military presence there.