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The Owen Jones Podcast

These Israeli Protesters Are Blocking Aid To Starve Gaza

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It may be difficult to understand this kind of evil. But we are going to try.

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0:00.0

This is depraved, completely depraved, but extremely revealing.

0:05.6

Understanding the mentality, the psyche of the people we're about to discuss is key to understanding the entire nightmare being suffered by the Palestinian people,

0:15.0

as well as understanding a huge roadblock to the only viable way out of all of this,

0:20.0

which is a just piece where Palestinians and Israelis share the land on the basis of

0:24.4

equality. Now as the risk of famine stalks the people of Gaza, because of Israel's

0:29.0

onshore and sea, just 80% of the world's hungiest people are in Gaza as Palestine is a force to eat grass to survive.

0:36.1

As the Red Cross declares hunger has reached beyond catastrophic proportions, Israeli protesters are blocking humanitarian aid from entering

0:46.2

Gaza via a crossing.

0:48.9

And indeed, they're being allowed to.

0:51.4

The Israeli state has not dispersed them. Well I don't need to tell you

0:55.1

how they deal with Palestinian protesters by way of contrast. Now these protesters are camping

1:01.7

outside at the border and stopping aid trucks from getting in.

1:04.3

As it is, Israel is not allowing anywhere near enough humanitarian aid in.

1:09.5

And before people go, well that's awfully generous of Israel to let any in.

1:13.2

They are obliged to by international law.

1:15.6

It is illegal to impose collective punishment on a civilian population via a siege.

1:20.8

And one of the provisional orders issued by the International Court of Justice

1:24.1

was that Israel must allow access to humanitarian aid to prevent genocide.

1:28.6

Now I'll explain how Israel is blocking such aid in general, but let's first of all

1:32.2

just see an excerpt from this video from Al Jazeera today.

1:37.0

Obviously we don't have the trucks coming through supplying aid to the Gazans which then go to Hamas. until we finish this war there is no need for whatsoever us to give them any kind of aid.

2:07.0

The civilians are not simply spontaneous protesters, but that they're aided and

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