After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza
(May 24, 2024 / JNS)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi agreed to restore the flow of aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during a telephone call with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.
Egypt halted U.N. aid deliveries into the southern city of Rafah after the Israeli military took control of the Gazan side of the Egypt-Gaza border. In Friday’s call, el-Sisi agreed to let the aid flow through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing near the Egyptian border.
“President Biden welcomed the commitment from President el-Sisi to permit the flow of U.N.-provided humanitarian assistance from Egypt through the Kerem Shalom crossing on a provisional basis for onward distribution throughout Gaza,” the White House stated in its readout of the call. “This will help save lives.”
The Egyptian readout of the call said that the deliveries would consist of “humanitarian aid and fuel” and would continue “temporarily until a legal mechanism is reached to reoperate the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side.”
B-B-But Biden does nothing?!
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Yeah, let's talk when the aid actually reaches the people that need it. And when the trucks comming in will be enough to help all who need it, rather than just a token amount.
Average American who misunderstands presidential power limits.
Uh huh, try again. The truth is he only does token gestures, till they actually work out, you can't claim "he did it boys". Not after sending so much leathal aid to Israel.
What do you want him to do? Send American troops to distribute the aid?
Well, start with not sending weapons to Israel and use the shitload amount of soft power the US has to pressure them to sign a cease fire. Also, could probably be better received if he didn't repeatedly call himself a zionist and acted accordingly.
Already doing this, at least
So far they parked two carriers right next to Israel to protect them. Where is the soft power being used on Israel?
You've missed all the times Biden has called for a ceasefire, and all the reports about how Biden has been trying to restrain Netanyahu?
Who am I kidding, of course you did.
And you have missed all the times he said "I am a zionist". Where is the aid then? Where is the ceasefire? Why are weapons still going to Israel?
Aid to Gaza.
The ceasefire is in the hands of Israel. Biden is not King of Israel, he can pressure but he can't force.
Jfc you don't know what you are talking about. The pier is a publicity stunt and barely supplies anything, especially because it is built in the zone controlled by Israel. If they aren't letting in aid through their borders, they aren't letting it through a shitty pier. I know the situation on the ground from people actually there, you know it from a propaganda web article.
Ok so you want Biden to do what? Send in troops? It always comes back to this. The most Biden can do is stop sending arms to Israel, which he's already done once and will likely do again. Other than that, it's just trying to convince and pressure the leader of an entirely separate nation to do things he doesn't want to do.