Palestinians Intentionally Create Humanitarian Crisis, Red Cross and Reuters Parrot Their Claims
Four days ago, we wrote that the Palestinians were willfully rejecting Israeli humanitarian efforts in order to create a humanitarian crisis. When Israel closed the Palestinian border following the Palestinian government's act of war, thousands of civilians who weren't in Gaza were stranded. Israeli leaders, seeing that this situation was unjust collective punishment, offered to let some of them back through The Palestinian leadership would have none of it:
The Palestinians, on the other hand, would rather reject those gestures so they can demonize Israel: Israel offered on Friday to allow the opening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, to let 500 Palestinians, waiting on the Egyptian side of the border, into the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians rejected the offer out of their refusal to allow Israel to monitor the people passing through the crossing, Israel Radio reported.
As the Palestinian leadership intended, a humanitarian crisis has indeed developed. And of course - and again precisely as the Palestinian leadership intended - Israel is being blamed:
Nearly 580 Palestinians in need of medical care have been stranded for up to two weeks inside a terminal on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, the Red Cross said Monday. Because of a border dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, the Red Cross has proposed escorting them into Gaza by boat from el-Arish along the Egyptian coast, a Red Cross spokeswoman in Cairo said. But it has yet to receive a response from either side... At least two stranded Palestinians have died so far, including a 15-year-old boy who was waiting to cross into Gaza after undergoing heart surgery in Cairo, an Egyptian official at the border said.
You have to get well past the lede before you even find a mention that the Palestinians rejected the Israeli offer (which like nobody ever gets past - that's why reporters put troublesome things like facts down there in the first place for plausible deniability). It's OK though - people probably don't need to know that the Palestinians are willing to intentionally murder their own people if there's a chance it will help them demonize Israel.
The Palestinians, on the other hand, would rather reject those gestures so they can demonize Israel: Israel offered on Friday to allow the opening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, to let 500 Palestinians, waiting on the Egyptian side of the border, into the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians rejected the offer out of their refusal to allow Israel to monitor the people passing through the crossing, Israel Radio reported.
As the Palestinian leadership intended, a humanitarian crisis has indeed developed. And of course - and again precisely as the Palestinian leadership intended - Israel is being blamed:
Nearly 580 Palestinians in need of medical care have been stranded for up to two weeks inside a terminal on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, the Red Cross said Monday. Because of a border dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, the Red Cross has proposed escorting them into Gaza by boat from el-Arish along the Egyptian coast, a Red Cross spokeswoman in Cairo said. But it has yet to receive a response from either side... At least two stranded Palestinians have died so far, including a 15-year-old boy who was waiting to cross into Gaza after undergoing heart surgery in Cairo, an Egyptian official at the border said.
You have to get well past the lede before you even find a mention that the Palestinians rejected the Israeli offer (which like nobody ever gets past - that's why reporters put troublesome things like facts down there in the first place for plausible deniability). It's OK though - people probably don't need to know that the Palestinians are willing to intentionally murder their own people if there's a chance it will help them demonize Israel.
