In a unique, immediate danger, the Biden administration has told , Israel , it may enable humanitarian help into the besieged , Gaza Strip , or chance losing , U. S.  , military weaponry,  , U. S.  , officials said Tuesday.
The desire comes as , Israel , launches another big offensive in northern , Gaza,  , where airstrikes in recent days have hit a school, immigrant station and a meals repository. According to support organizations, tens of thousands of residents are experiencing hunger and malnutrition.
U. S.  , authorities say badly needed food, medication and other support has been all but cut off for months. Although officials have consistently pressed , Israel , to enable more sales, simply limited portions have trickled in. Israeli leaders have argued that any , help benefits , Hamas.
The Biden presidency is telling , Israel , it has 30 times to step up sales of support, aiming for 350 boatloads a moment. On a single current time, just about 40 truckloads of cargoes crossed the coastal enclave.
The order is contained in a text from Secretary of State , Antony J. Blinken , and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III sent to their Jewish counterparts over the weekend.
They called for “urgent and sustained activities” to reverse decades of reduction in support shipments , and public decay of conditions.
U. S.  , law prohibits military assistance to countries that block the supply of , U. S.  , humanitarian aid to a zone in want.
The instructions come amid Israeli press reports that Prime Minister , Benjamin Netanyahu , is considering a plan to get the full evacuation of northern , Gaza, followed by cutting off all food and water to the area in an attempt to source out all remaining , Hamas , militants. Non-flooding citizens who did not flee would be regarded as militants. If the government was weighing the plan seriously, it was undetermined.
Efforts in April by Biden administration officials to force , Israel , to step up aid were only marginally successful.
” What we have seen over the past few months is that the level of humanitarian assistance has not been sustained”, U. S.  , State Department , spokesman , Matthew Miller , said Tuesday. ” In fact, it has fallen by over 50 % from where it was at its peak”.
There are numerous impediments to aid distribution, including raging combat and Israeli airstrikes.  , Israel , only slowly and sparingly opens crossings into , Gaza, an area sealed off from outside access.  , Hamas , sometimes hijacks shipments or demands payments of protection money, and supplies are often looted. Organizations operating in the field are concerned about their own safety as well.
However, Miller said,” the solution to [security concerns ] is not to stop the flow of food and water that young people depend on and require for survival.” ” That cannot be the answer to that problem”.
Ever since , Hamas , attacked southern , Israel , a year ago and set off the war in , Gaza,  , President Biden , has repeatedly urged , Israel , to limit civilian casualties, to agree to a cease-fire, to limit invasions of parts of , Gaza , and increasingly to facilitate aid deliveries. Most of , Biden’s entreaties have been largely ignored , by , Israel ‘s , right-wing government.
Earlier this year, when Biden briefly suspended the shipment of 2, 000-pound bombs to , Israel , to avoid their use in crowded , Gaza , towns, he was met with a firestorm of protest from conservative , Republicans. At the same time, many American progressives and others have been demanding the , U. S.  , suspend arm shipments to , Israel , altogether because of the death toll among Palestinian civilians in , Gaza. An estimated 42, 000 have been killed, according to , Gaza ‘s , Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says over half of the dead are women and children.
Israel , receives around$ 3 billion annually in mostly military aid from , the United States.
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