The comment was made by Lise Grande during a meeting in August
The top US official working on the humanitarian situation in Gaza told aid organizations during a meeting in August that the US wouldn’t even consider suspending military aid to Israel over its blocking of food and medicine shipments, POLITICO reported on Wednesday.
The official, Lise Grande, who was appointed to the position in April , told over a dozen aid groups that the US could find other ways to pressure Israel but stressed that the US would not block or delay weapons shipments, which is the only real leverage the US has.
One aid official who attended the meeting said Grande described Israel as being in a “tight circle of very few allies” that the US would not oppose. Grande said the US would not “hold anything back that they want.”
During the meeting, aid officials detailed how Israel was blocking aid shipments into Gaza and said by doing so, it was violating international law. Another person who attended the meeting said Grande “was saying that the rules don’t apply to Israel.”
US government agencies had previously concluded Israel was deliberately blocking aid , which violates US foreign assistance laws, but Blinken overrode those concerns to ensure US weapons continued to flow to Israel.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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