Families of Israeli captives obstructed on Thursday the entry of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
According to Haaretz, the families, along with right-wing activists, blocked the passage of aid trucks to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing.
Protesters reportedly closed the road to the crossing and prevented trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from passing.
“We are here today to show (Israeli) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he can stop the trucks, just as we are stopping them now,” Dany Elgart, a brother of one of the captives, reportedly said, adding:
“I call on all citizens: come to the checkpoint and stop this humanitarian aid with your bodies. It is not humanitarian at all because it only serves one segment of the population there. The hostages there do not receive any humanitarian aid.”
The aid comes from abroad and is transported through Israel, which announced the closure of crossings to the Gaza Strip on October 7, according to Anadolu news agency.
On October 9, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip. “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly,” Gallant said.
Both sides are inhumane radicals - that’s a fact.
What we shouldn’t forget is that one of them got radicalized by being placed in inhumane conditions, ghettoed, turned to second-class people and left to rot.
And the other is Israel, a country of radical immigrants that felt entitled to seed massacre on locals, put them in those conditions and got surprised they turned other side to be cruel. Wow, what a surprise.
Slight correction: the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians senselessly killed in this genocide are innocent civilians, many children. They aren’t inhumane radicals, they are purely victims of Israel’s genocide.
Same is true for civilian Israelis. It’s always vital to separate actions of government/military and not automatically expand them on general population, on either side.
People often ignore it, which leads to disastrous consequences. Thank you for highlighting it.