Piers Hadil El-Shalchi
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, nearly every day since the group started operations more than a week ago, Gaza health officials have told us that dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire near sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF Israel, of course. denies this. But because of this, the United Nations has called a delivery today in Gaza a, quote, death trap.
Today, GHF said they would take a, quote, one-day pause in activity. In a statement, organizers said that the sites need to prepare logistically. with the Israeli military to deal with the size of the crowds arriving. They said they didn't expect 15,000 people in one hour to show up yesterday.
I mean, it seems that the GHF didn't know how many Palestinians are sheltering close by or how many were willing to walk miles to get the food because of their desperation. And then yesterday, GHF appointed a U.S. evangelical leader, Reverend Dr. Johnny Moore, as its executive chairman. You know, before GHF started operating, the head of the group, Jake Wood, resigned.
He said that the group was unable to operate, according to Humanitarian. And then the GHF says it is aware that the Israeli military is investigating casualties. But despite Israel's admission, troops fired near the site. Reverend Moore posted on social media that the shootings are a lie.
First of all, remember that Palestinians have been under a total blockade for nearly three months. So people are very hungry, desperate. They're swarming the GHF sites. It's been chaotic. And we've talked to people who say they storm the sites, they grab however many boxes they can. They also tell us that they... leave empty handed.
And there are the shootings, you know, we have heard from doctors in hospitals say that they're receiving victims. For example, we spoke to Ahmed Abu Suaid. He's a doctor volunteering from Australia at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Here's what he had to say.
So he says that the hospital just can't keep up with the number of people getting shot and injured in those sites or around those sites.
Well, yesterday, the Israeli foreign minister, the PMO, and the Israeli military all held press conferences. Their messages were the same. They say that they've repeated throughout the week that the multiple deadly shootings are exaggerated and hyped up by the media.
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I mean, it really appears so. Syrian President Ahmad al-Shar has been saying he wants no trouble with Israel for months now. And yesterday he said in a speech that Syria will be a land of peace. You know, the Syrian government has been making these overtures ever since they took power in December.
You know, two weeks after the fall of the Assad regime, I spoke to the Damascus governor, Meher Marwan, who said on behalf of his leader, Syria wanted cordial relations with Israel. This is what he told me. Marwan said, we want peace and we cannot be an opponent to Israel or an opponent to anyone else. He also told me that he wanted the United States to facilitate those relations.
And then yesterday, on the heels of Trump's comments, Shara's spokesperson, Ali Rifai, spoke to Israeli media and he backed this up. He said, we want peace in the region and that includes Israel.
So there's no official comment yet, but we do know that Israel was kind of stunned at the news that Trump wants to lift sanctions. You know, Israeli media had reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Trump not to lift them. Israel's line all along has been that shut on his people are terrorists, that Israel must defend itself from them. And they say that's why they need to expand.
And they've been expanding past a long recognized limit. buffer zone into Syria. Israel's also been continuing its bombing campaign in targets in and around Damascus. But you know, at the end of the day, here in Israel, Syria, of course, is a consideration. But front of mine is the war in Gaza.
Well, just in the past 24 hours, Gaza health officials said at least 150 Palestinians were killed, including dozens of children in Israeli airstrikes in the north and the south of Gaza. You know, Israel's also blocked aid into Gaza for more than 10 weeks now. No food, medical supplies, shelter supplies have entered Gaza in that time.
Israel says it wants to pressure Hamas to release more hostages that way. But aid groups say that Gaza is on the brink of famine, that nearly half a million Palestinians are in, quote, catastrophic levels of hunger. During this trip that Trump is on in the Gulf, there haven't been any public talks about a ceasefire.
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