In the wake of the International Criminal Court’s factually bogus, politically motivated, and morally bankrupt move Monday seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the Associated Press fed the corrupt court’s fallacious accusation that Israel is starving Gaza’s civilians. In a 1300-word article holding Israel responsible for the reported food shortage in Rafah, the Associated Press today conceals that it is Egypt — not Israel — which has forced the shut down of the border crossing next to the southern Gaza Strip city, thereby stopping the flow of aid through that point.
In the very first sentence of their article today, the robust team of three Associated Press reporters explains that Israel’s military operation is at fault for the United Nations’ cessation of food distribution in Rafah (“UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city“): The reason, explain AP’s Samy Magdy, Lee Keath and Tia Goldenberg in the very first paragraph, is Israel’s military operation:
The United Nations suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Tuesday due to a lack of supplies and an untenable security situation caused by Israel’s expanding military operation. (Emphasis added.)
The humanitarian crisis deepened after Israeli forces pushed into Rafah on May 6. Tanks and troops seized the vital Rafah crossing into Egypt, and it’s been closed ever since.
EGYPT SLAMS ISRAEL’S TOP DIPLOMAT FOR BLAMING THE CLOSING OF GAZA’S RAFAH CROSSING ON CAIROCAIRO — Egypt has blasted comments by Israel’s top diplomat in which he blamed the Arab country for the closure of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.
Egypt has expressed mounting frustration with Israel’s seizure of the Palestinian side of the crossing last week, saying it threatens the two countries’ decades-old peace treaty.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Israel “is responsible for the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.”
“We reject the policy of distorting the facts,” Shoukry said in a statement on Tuesday, denouncing Israel’s “desperate attempts” to blame Egypt.
He said Israel’s incursion into Rafah was the main reason aid cannot enter through the crossing and called for Israel to allow more aid through its own crossings.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that there was a “need to persuade Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing to allow the continued delivery of international humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
“The world places the responsibility for the humanitarian situation on Israel, but the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now in the hands of our Egyptian friends,” Katz said.
Egypt has refused to coordinate with Israel on the entry of aid into Gaza from the Rafah crossing due to Israel’s “unacceptable escalation”, Egypt’s state affiliated Alqahera News satellite TV reported on Saturday, citing a senior official.
In concealing the fact that Egypt — not Israel — is preventing aid from flowing through the Rafah crossing, the Associated Press piles on to the tampered evidence upon which the ICC has built its whole rotten case.