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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;margin-top: 0;"><em>The
U.S. announced it was pulling out of the Gaza
ceasefire talks today, even as Hamas said it
remained committed to diplomacy. A senior Hamas
official told Jeremy Scahill that envoy Steve
Witkoff \u201cis playing the same game of
manipulation, deception and evasion\u201d and that
the withdrawal is an attempt at a \u201cnew round of
blackmailing.\u201d</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>In
an official statement, Hamas was remarkably
diplomatic:</em></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>\u201cThe
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirms
that, from the outset of the negotiation
process, it has acted with full national
responsibility and high flexibility across
various issues, and has been committed to
reaching an agreement that halts the
aggression and ends the suffering of our
people in the Gaza Strip.</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>The
Movement presented its final response after
extensive consultations with Palestinian
factions, mediators, and friendly countries,
and it responded positively to all the
feedback it received. This reflects a sincere
commitment to the success of the mediators'
efforts and a constructive engagement with all
proposed initiatives.</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>We
are surprised by the negative statements of
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff regarding the
Movement's stance, especially when the
mediators have expressed their welcome and
satisfaction with this constructive and
positive position, which opens the door to
reaching a comprehensive agreement.</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>The
Movement reiterates its commitment to
continuing negotiations and engaging in them
to help overcome obstacles and reach a
permanent ceasefire agreement.\u201d</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>Meanwhile,
you may have seen that Israel has launched a new
propaganda campaign, aiming to pin the blame for
the ongoing famine in Gaza on the United
Nations. If anybody in your circle is falling
prey to that hasbara, please share this piece
below with them.</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>\u2014Ryan
Grim</em></p>
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soldiers pass by humanitarian aid packages
intended for the Palestinian side of the Kerem
Shalom Crossing Point in the Gaza Strip on
July 24, 2025 Photo by Amir Levy/Getty
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
Israeli government has pivoted to a new
deflection: The famine in Gaza is not the result
of Israel\u2019s publicly announced March 2 blockade
of all food entering Gaza, nor is it connected
to the Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which replaced
the UNRWA aid system Israel shut down with its
own militarized version in late May. Instead,
according to the new Israeli campaign, the blame
lies with the United Nations. \u201cHundreds of aid
trucks have entered Gaza with Israel\u2019s approval,
but the supplies are standing idle,
undelivered,\u201d the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4b6ab21d-ffb8-4958-8149-2cf38bccd6ae?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs declared on X</a><span>. \u201cThe
reason? The UN refuses to distribute the aid.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Clearly
sensing a turning-point in world opinion, as the
death toll from starvation mounts exponentially
in Gaza, Israel brought </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8f38432f-94f1-4fe1-90e3-dd11e4a7c21c?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">dozens of sympathetic
journalists </a><span>to a crossing to wage a
PR campaign on Thursday.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Israel\u2019s
insistence that the UN must do more when it comes
to aid clashed with its position in \u201cceasefire\u201d
negotiations. In its response submitted to
mediators Thursday, Hamas insisted that any
agreement must allow the UN to resume aid
distribution. Israel has rejected that idea. Prior
to March 2, aid was distributed through 400
non-militarized points throughout Gaza in a system
coordinated by the UN. The GHF operates four
points\u2014three in the far southern end of Gaza\u2014all
in heavily militarized zones where Palestinians
are shot and shelled on a daily basis as they try
to access them. Even though Israel in the
negotiations has been pretending to demand that
the UN distribute aid, Israel has insisted that
the GHF remain in control of aid distribution.
Today alone, 19 Palestinians have been killed
while seeking aid, according to Al Jazeera, and at
least one woman was killed during a women-only
distribution organized by GHF, Gaza\u2019s medical
sources told Drop Site.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
focal point of the Israeli accusation against the
UN is a collection of some 900 aid trucks that
have already crossed into Gaza but which have been
unable to distribute the aid. Yet Israel has
actively prevented the UN from distributing aid.
Tamara Alrifai, a spokesperson for UNRWA, told
Drop Site that Israeli restrictions on the
movement of the organization\u2019s staff have made
distribution impossible. \u201cClaiming that the UN
isn\u2019t picking up food and other urgent supplies,
and promoting images that these goods are just
sitting near the crossing is disingenuous to say
the least,\u201d she said. \u201cSince the collapse of the
ceasefire, the government of Israel tightened its
already stringent restrictions even more, giving
even less permission to the UN to move around the
Gaza Strip.\u2026 The rule is that a UN convoy moves
after getting consent. We as the UN have not been
getting sufficient permission to move.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
UN is eager to deliver aid if Israel is serious,
she said. \u201cSo the ask is: let us do our work, give
us movement permits, fulfill your obligation under
IHL to protect our passage, then tell us whether
we are fulfilling our job,\u201d said Alrifai. \u201cIt\u2019s
truly cynical to accuse the UN of not doing its
work after weeks of seeking to bypass the UN via
the GHF and in reality failing to deliver through
that so-called \u2018humanitarian foundation.\u2019\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
its briefing Thursday, the UN gave its most
detailed explanation yet for why the aid was
languishing, with Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson
for the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
citing \u201ca number of interdependent factors,
including bureaucratic, logistical,
administrative, and other operational obstacles
imposed by Israeli authorities; ongoing
hostilities and access constraints within Gaza;
and incidents of criminal looting, as well as
shooting incidents that have killed and injured
people gathering to offload aid supplies along
convoy routes.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Last
Sunday morning, a UN aid delivery was made by the
World Food Programme (WFP). Head of the WFP Cindy
McCain, widow of Sen. John McCain, condemned what
happened next.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cShortly
after passing the final checkpoint beyond the
Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the convoy
encountered large crowds of civilians anxiously
waiting to access desperately needed food
supplies,\u201d she said. \u201cAs the convoy approached,
the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli
tanks, snipers and other gunfire. We are deeply
concerned and saddened by this tragic incident
resulting in the loss of countless lives.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Israeli military had assured her they would not
fire on aid seekers, McCain claimed, yet they did
so almost immediately. \u201cToday\u2019s violent incident
comes despite assurances from Israeli authorities
that humanitarian operational conditions would
improve; including that armed forces will not be
present nor engage at any stage along humanitarian
convoy routes,\u201d she said. \u201cThere should never,
ever, be armed groups near or on our aid convoys,
as reiterated on many occasions to all parties to
the conflict.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWithout
these fundamental conditions in place, we cannot
continue providing life-saving support across the
Gaza strip,\u201d she said. Over 81 Palestinians were
killed and hundreds wounded near the Zikim
crossing that day. The incident left hundreds of
trucks with aid still to be delivered, with Israel
immediately beginning to roll out its campaign to
deflect blame to the UN.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">UN
spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric called the Israeli
accusation \u201cthe theater of the absurd.\u201d He added,
\u201cI think we have seen what happens when Israeli
soldiers are near a UN convoy. Right? We saw it.
We saw what happened on Sunday in North Gaza. We
saw the victims, and we saw the death.\u2026 Kerem
Shalom is not a McDonald\u2019s drive-thru where we
just pull up and pick up what we\u2019ve ordered. And,
frankly, I think there\u2019s a lack of willingness to
allow us to do our work.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Israel
continues to reject UN requests by staff to move
around Gaza, and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/566a7b47-d330-478b-a00b-054aaf3de8c8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">raided the office of the
World Health Organization</a><span> in
Deir-al-Balah this week while pressuring other
UN and related organizations to evacuate.
\u201cDespite our repeated requests, Israel has not
allowed the UN to be present at the crossings,
which are militarized areas,\u201d Jens Laerke,
spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told the AFP
news agency. \u201cWe therefore cannot verify the
amount of supplies currently at the crossing.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
same day as the Sunday massacre, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c60428ac-be61-4296-916b-585b7a8aadab?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Israel moved to expel the
head of OCHA, Jonathan Whittal</a><span>, from
the country, and announced it would grant only
one month visas to OCHA officials.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
order for distribution to be successful, Laerke
explained to AFP, \u201cthey must provide the green
light for trucks without unnecessary delays; allow
teams to use multiple, safer routes; and order
troops to stay away from the convoys, and never
shoot at civilians along the allocated routes \u2013 or
anywhere else\u2026Without the full set of conditions
in place, safe and principled delivery cannot take
place at scale. So even when approved, those
missions are often impeded on the ground.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">During
an interview on Channel 4, UNRWA Acting Director
Sam Rose was asked about Israel\u2019s claim that it
had given permission to the UN to retrieve the
trucks. \u201cThey are bombing central Gaza, where the
vast majority of the UN\u2019s capacity right now is
situated. There\u2019s literally no way for United
Nations personnel to get out of that area. So no,
it isn\u2019t true. It isn\u2019t true at all,\u201d he said.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Despite
the incoherence of the Israeli arguments, the
U.S. stepped in Thursday to elevate them. \u201cThis
is important for the world to see,\u201d </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7cd1e295-ebc0-46fe-9854-8a59efcc3f7f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">said U.S. ambassador</a><span>
to Israel Mike Huckabee, sharing the Israeli
footage of aid at the crossing. \u201cThe UN has
criticized the US & Israel for the food
actually delivered, but it's the UN who has had
massive amounts sitting on pallets rotting!
Let's hope the press will tell the truth about
the UN.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>State
Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, apparently
the last one to get the memo that the famine is
now being acknowledged and pinned on the UN
rather than denied,</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9018f4f0-e290-4401-83c1-4a2ddf0f4991?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
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moz-do-not-send="true"> put forward a wildly
different assessment at her briefing this week,
</a><span>telling reporters that the work GHF was
doing has been \u201ca tremendous success.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cGHF
did it differently, and the different approach has
worked,\u201d said Bruce.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Meanwhile,
international pressure on Israel continues to
build momentum. 28 countries, including major
European powers like France and England, issued
a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a16ee09b-ec8e-44b8-ac2a-2470ae3ef860?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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on Monday, saying \u201cthe Israeli government to
immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid
and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian
NGOs to do their life saving work safely and
effectively.\u201d Likewise, four of the world's
largest media institutions\u2014AP, AFP, BBC News,
and Reuters\u2014declared \u201cWe are desperately
concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are
increasingly unable to feed themselves and their
families." Increasingly, Israel\u2019s supporters are
facing international scrutiny.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Israeli government\u2019s defiant new PR campaign
comes, however, as supporters of Israel are
finally acknowledging that the situation has
become desperate, and has created a major problem
for Israel on the world stage. \u201cIt\u2019s actually real
and beginning now in a desperate way and the
Israelis had better not allow it and massively
uptick aid in a huge strategic way,\u201d Israeli
journalist Haviv Rettig Gur said on a podcast
hosted by The Free Press, a pro-Israel news outlet
in the United States. Rettig Gur cited a new paper
by Yannay Spitzer, an assistant professor at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who studied prices
of food in the markets in Deir-al-Balah, finding
that they have exploded to catastrophic levels.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Amit
Segal, another outspoken defender of Israel, cited
the same report in raising a similar alarm,
warning that a famine \u201cwould see Israel lose even
its most strident supporters.\u201d</p>
<p
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report includes contributions from Herman Gill.</em></p>
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