🔥 “Gaza Will Be Transformed Into Ashes” — said Israeli far-right politician Bezalel Smotrich, as tensions continue to escalate.

🍽 Two days after Netanyahu announced he was lifting the siege of Gaza, Israel is still blocking food from reaching starving Palestinians, the UN has said. Meanwhile, Yair Golan, leader of the center-left Democrats party, accused Israel of becoming a "pariah nation that kills babies as a hobby."

🚚 Only five trucks of aid had reached Gaza by Tuesday afternoon, and aid workers were not allowed to distribute even that small shipment, said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), at a Geneva press briefing.

🚫 Israeli authorities have approved "around 100" other trucks, but none have yet crossed, Laerke noted. Even if they had, this would represent only one-fifth of the aid Gaza received daily before the war, when basic needs were met.

📦 Israeli officials later claimed that 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, but did not confirm whether food and medicine were cleared for distribution.

🌍 The threat of famine in Gaza has sparked global outrage and increased diplomatic pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to allow urgent humanitarian aid for over 2 million trapped civilians.

🗣 On Sunday night, Netanyahu stated he would end the siege, citing fears that a "starvation crisis" could damage Israel’s international image.

⚖️ Yair Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff, declared:

“A sane country doesn’t fight civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby, and doesn’t aim to expel an entire population.”

🧨 Netanyahu called Golan’s remarks "contemptible antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel,” but Golan stood by his statement in a press conference.

💬 In parallel, Bezalel Smotrich, a key far-right figure in Netanyahu’s coalition, made the incendiary statement:

"Gaza will be transformed into ashes."

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