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2024-05-25 Africa North
In Biden call, Egypt’s Sissi agrees to release Gaza aid via Israel amid Rafah closure
[IsraelTimes] White House says move ‘will help save lives’; leaders also discuss ‘new initiatives to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza’

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi agreed with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
in a phone call on Friday to temporarily send humanitarian aid and fuel to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
via Israel’s Kerem Shalom Crossing until legal mechanisms were in place to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing from the Paleostinian side, the Egyptian presidency announced.

Biden welcomed the decision, with the White House saying in a later readout on the call that "this will help save lives."

The US president "also expressed his full commitment to support efforts to reopen the Rafah Crossing with arrangements acceptable to both Egypt and Israel and agreed to send a senior team to Cairo next week for further discussions," the readout said.

The announcement was a win for the Biden administration, which has been pressuring Egypt in recent days to take this step, with aid piling up in Egypt since Israel launched the operation to take over the Gazook side of the Rafah Crossing with Egypt on May 7.

Not wanting to be seen as complicit with Israel’s military operation to take over the crossing, Egypt has refused to re-open Rafah until Israeli troops have withdrawn from the other side.

In the meantime, the US and Israel have urged Cairo to at least allow the growing amount of aid in Egypt to be transferred to Israel where it can be delivered into Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

Egypt had to date refused, still deeming such a move as collaboration with Israel’s military offensive in Rafah.

That stance led to rare criticism from the Biden administration, which had until this week only offered praise of Egypt’s role in the war — both as a mediator and as a controller of aid.

Biden on the call also thanked Sissi "for his efforts from the beginning of the crisis to ensure the continuous flow of assistance from Egypt into Gaza," the White House said.

"The two leaders also consulted on new initiatives to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza," the US readout said.

The Paleostinian Authority also gave its public backing to Egypt’s decision — Cairo appeared to have requested a statement of support from PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s office to present its decision as being taken in full coordination with Ramallah.

In an effort to break the impasse earlier this month, Israel quietly asked the Paleostinian Authority to take over the Gaza side of the Rafah Crossing instead of Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
Israel conditioned the offer on officers not identifying themselves as part of the PA due to fears that this would spark opposition from far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, a US official told The Times of Israel.

The offer was rejected by Ramallah, which said it would not comply unless Israel agreed to establish a pathway to a future Paleostinian state — a non-starter for the hardline government in Jerusalem, the US official added.

Since that rejection, Israel and Egypt have been in talks about having Paleostinians not directly affiliated with Hamas or the PA running the Rafah Crossing with assistance from international organizations, the US official said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
the United Nations said Friday that aid access to the Gaza Strip is extremely limited with less than 1,000 truckloads of humanitarian assistance entering the enclave since May 7, after Israel began the Rafah operation.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that between May 7 and May 23, only 906 truckloads entered the enclave of 2.3 million people.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said about 800 of those truckloads were food supplies.

OCHA said 143 truckloads passed through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Gaza’s south, while in Gaza’s north 62 passed through the Erez Crossing and 604 via Erez West. It said 97 truckloads have come through a US-built floating pier in central Gaza that began operating a week ago.

Accusations of severe food insecurity, malnutrition and even famine have formed an integral part of the allegations against Israel of genocide in the International Court of Justice and of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the ICC. Israel has strenuously denied all the allegations.
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