No food or medicine will enter Gaza from Israel as long as Hamas continues to hold hostages, Netanyahu says
An Israeli army transports a 155mm artillery shell near a self-propelled howitzer deployed at a position near the border with Lebanon in the upper Galilee region of northern Israel on Oct. 18.Joe Biden, in the first visit by a U.S. President to Israel in a time of war, has thrown his weight behind the Israeli government in its fierce battle with the Hamas militant group. But it remains unclear whether Mr. Biden’s efforts to ensure humanitarian aid enters Gaza will be successful.
In a televised speech to Israelis after his meeting with the U.S. President, Mr. Netanyahu made no mention of any promise to allow aid to enter from Egypt. Instead, he emphasized that no food or medicine will enter Gaza from Israeli territory as long as Hamas continues to hold about 200 hostages in Gaza.
But Mr. Biden also disclosed that the road from Egypt is filled with potholes and will require eight hours of patching work, so the gate cannot be finally opened until Friday at the earliest. The UN humanitarian affairs office, UNOCHA, said there were rising tensions in Gaza because of the “critically short supply” of food, water and medicine.
The explosion at the hospital, meanwhile, has caused a barrage of accusations and counter-accusations about who was responsible. Thousands of displaced people from across Gaza had been sleeping at the hospital courtyard where the blast occurred. Reports by witnesses continue to emerge, with horrific details of the devastation.
Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee, made a similar statement after his committee reviewed intelligence on the matter. “Based on this information, we feel confident that the explosion was the result of a failed rocket launch by militant terrorists and not the result of an Israeli air strike,” he said.
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