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‘Exterminate Gaza’: rules don’t apply to Israel, US insists

Alameen Templeton

Israel is allowed to do whatever it likes as it imposes a merciless kill zone on northern Gaza where it is trying to exterminate any of its 400 000 residents who have not fled, a US envoy has said in a rare moment of truthfulness.
Lisa Grande, the White House’s special envoy on Arabian humanitarian issues, told heads of a dozen aid organisations last week Israel is one of a “tight circle of allies” that the US will never oppose, nor withhold help from.
“She was saying that the rules don’t apply to Israel,” one person who attended the meeting said.
She told the aid officials Washington would never “consider withholding weapons from Israel for blocking food and medicine from entering” Gaza, sources at the meeting told Politico.
Grande made the admission after the aid organisation leaders presented a report detailing the many ways Israel has blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza as part of their strategy to use starvation as a weapon of war.
The meeting came three days after US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sent a letter to top Israeli officials giving them 30 days “to ensure noncombatants have access to food and other necessities.”
Grande said the US “could potentially consider other tactics to convince Israel to allow life-saving aid into Gaza” but stressed that the White House “would continue to support Israel and would not delay or stop weapons shipments,” Politico reports.
The Washington Post reports White House letter warned “Absent a change … the administration would be obliged to take steps laid out in laws and policies linking the facilitation of humanitarian aid during wartime and the compliance with laws of war, including the protection of civilians, to the provision of US arms and military assistance.”
Most aid officials said the letter was actually a death sentence to the residents of northern Gaza as it effectively gives the Zionists a 30-day green light to “get the job done”.
Nevertheless, the missive makes an explicit threat to cut military aid to their ally, with some analysts alleging that its purpose is to “shield” US officials from future accusations of complicity in genocide.
When reporters on Monday pressed State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller as to why the “ultimatum” included a 30-day grace period, he replied, “We believe it’s appropriate to give them a chance to cure the problem.”
Austin and Blinken’s letter came on the heels of Israel implementing the so-called “General’s Plan” to ethnically cleanse the north of Gaza.
“We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter this territory,” the plan’s mastermind, retired major general Giora Eiland, said in mid-September.
In November, Eiland said that the spread of disease in Gaza is good for Israel. “After all, severe epidemics in the southern strip will bring victory closer and reduce fatalities among IDF soldiers,” he wrote in an op-ed for Yedioth Ahronoth.

The occupation’s siege on the North continues for the 16th consecutive day. Al Mayadeen reports occupation forces continued attacking the Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camps, intensifying airstrikes on homes and shelters while besieging hospitals, with the aim of displacing the remaining population in the region.

Dr. Marwan Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, announced Sunday 73 martyrs had been brought to the facility, mostly women and children. He noted many sustained severe injuries due to relentless bombardment in Beit Lahiya overnight.

“Victims continue to arrive at the hospital as a result of the shelling,” he stated.

On Saturday night, the occupation committed a horrific massacre by bombing houses near the al-Qassam Mosque in Beit Lahia, resulting in the deaths of 73 Palestinians, according to a preliminary toll from the Government Media Office in Gaza.

In addition to the high death toll , dozens of people have been injured or remain missing, most of them women and children.

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