The Palestinians deserve to starve
Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said Palestinians deserve to starve.
The aid that comes to Gaza must be distributed to the resistance fighters and the rest to the people. As is happening today in Rafah, some citizens are trying to seize aid, we will fight with all our might, people must provide expensive and cheap things for the resistance, and not steal the food of the resistance. ”
According to Hamas, if you are a hungry Palestinian, you should be shot.
Abbas: The post-war period will be a "test" of US support for the Palestinian Authority to rule Gaza
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority would return to rule Gaza despite Israel's opposition, and said the post-war period would be a "test" for the United States to prove that it could keep its promise to Ramallah and support the Palestinian Authority's "renewed" form of rule over the Gaza Strip.
We don't need to return to Gaza, we're already there," the Palestinian Authority leader reiterated several times in an interview with journalist Lamis Elhadidy on Egypt's Onn-Telegram** channel, stressing that even after the PA was driven out of its coastal enclave in 2007, it continued to pay thousands of local employees.
Abbas claims that to this day, Ramallah pays $1 a month$400 million to pay for salaries, electricity and medical care for the people of Gaza, so there is still an affiliate network in Hamas-controlled territory.
The leader condemned the United States for continuing to support Israel after the October 7 Hamas flag, adding that the war would end if the United States did not use its veto power at the UN Security Council at all.
Abbas insisted on the need for a post-conflict Palestinian state, reiterating that it must consist of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and hinted that the West Bank could "erupt" into further violence at any time.
Abbas called the ongoing war in Gaza worse than the massive Palestinian exodus and expulsions that occurred after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
In the interview, Abbas did not condemn Hamas's brutal attack on Israel on October 7, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and about 240 were abducted to Gaza, but he condemned Hamas for not "following up" after reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions in the Egyptian town of El Alamein in late July. He noted that he was waiting for statements from leaders of other factions to flesh out the details of the agreement.
Netanyahu's confidant visited the United States to discuss "plans for the day after tomorrow."
Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer met with U.S. adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington to discuss Israeli-U.S. cooperation in the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war.
A spokesman for the U.S. Committee told The Times of Israel that the meeting revolved around a number of topics, including "transitioning to different phases of the war to maximize the focus on Hamas's goals."
The meeting also included a discussion of steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and minimize harm to civilians, as well as efforts to bring the remaining hostages home, as well as "planning for the day after [the war], including governance and security in Gaza, the political future of the Palestinian people, and continued efforts for normalization and integration."
Demer, a close confidant of Netanyahu and a frequent brigadier, also plans to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit. I'm going to be hot