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Although those steps are critical, Satterfield maintained that if they are not accompanied by a broader surge of aid into the Strip from as many crossings as possible, the hunger crisis will not be fully mitigated. (10/10).

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. instituting humanitarian pauses to its military operations in densely populated areas, reconnecting the power line to Gaza’s only desalination plant, and launching its own airdrops of food and medicine for the first time. (9/10).

While still blaming the UN, Israel appeared to tacitly recognize its own complicity in the humanitarian crisis on Saturday, by announcing a series of steps to alleviate the situation, including establishing new corridors for the UN to safely deliver aid. (8/10).

. and when looting becomes increasingly widespread due to food insecurity, an environment is created where the UN is physically prevented from doing its job, the former US envoy elaborated. (7/10).

When aid transport roads become too badly damaged by IDF ops, when there are insufficient deconfliction mechanisms in place to ensure aid workers don’t accidentally get hit by IDF fire, when authorizations aren’t given by the IDF for aid to be picked up and delivered. (6/10).

“It is disingenuous — knowingly false — for any party to assert that it is failure, lack of courage or deliberate conspiratorial withholding of aid by UN or international orgs that is responsible for the humanitarian suffering in Gaza,” Satterfield told @TimesofIsrael (5/10).

David Satterfield, who served as the US humanitarian envoy during the early months of the Gaza war, hit back at the Israeli claim in a recent interview. (4/10).

A senior officer from Israel’s COGAT brought journalists to the Gazan side of the Strip’s Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday, where he declared that aid piling up there was “due to a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organizations.” (3/10).

But while certain areas of the war-town enclave are lacking food, this is because the United Nations has failed to distribute large quantities of aid that are sitting on the Gaza side of the border, Israel claims. (2/10).

🧵New: Ex-US humanitarian envoy pans Israeli claim UN allowing aid to amass on Gaza border. After long dismissing alarm over Gaza humanitarian crisis, Israeli officials shifted in recent days to acknowledge a degree of hunger afflicting civilians. (1/10).

Lamenting the current political dynamics in Jerusalem, the EU diplomat said that there was no "responsible adult" in the Israeli government willing to rein in Smotrich. "Netanyahu has not intervened because the US hasn't asked him to," the diplomat said (8/8).

The Palestinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed his hope that the EU would also tie its decision on Israel sanctions to whether Smotrich agrees to release the PA's clearance revenues. (7/8).

But Smotrich has yet to budge, and his office didnt respond to repeated requests for comment. Meanwhile, top EU diplo Kaja Kallas warned Tuesday "all options remain on table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges" to increase the amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. (6/8).

While PA officials had weighed announcing more far-reaching steps, they faced pressure from Arab countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, to hold off in the hope that Israel would release at least the $270 million withheld since May by the end of last week. (5/8).

Last week, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Musfafa held what was characterized as an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss steps that Ramallah could take to address the Israeli-spurred financial crisis. (4/8).

In addition, the PA is considering extreme measures of its own to try and influence Israel, including halting security cooperation and even declaring a state of emergency in the West Bank, according to the sources. (3/8).

PA President Mahmoud Abbas's deputy, Hussein al-Sheikh, penned a letter to EU FMs earlier this month requesting that they press the Israeli gov to release roughly NIS 8 billion ($2.4 billion) in customs duties and other tax funds that belong to the PA, the two sources said. (2/8).

🧵New: The PA is again seeking international intervention to coax Israel into releasing over $2 billion of its funds, while also weighing the limited diplomatic options it has in its own arsenal, an EU diplomat & a PA official told @TimesofIsrael (1/8)

An Arab diplomat says that despite delay in Hamas response, mediators still optimistic about chances for deal in coming days, given softened Israeli stance on troop redeployment & Hamas willingness to forgo demand for an up-front Israeli commitment for a permanent ceasefire(7/7).