Ret. Israeli colonel: Blocking Gaza aid is wrong

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00:00I mean, you make the distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian people, and yet it's been

00:06seven weeks since any humanitarian aid was allowed into the Gaza Strip. The humanitarian

00:12situation is being described as being at the worst point yet in what's been, as we've been

00:18saying, a horrific conflict. At what point do you think Israel will reconsider the admission

00:25of aid into Gaza? So let's distinguish here in that sense between both the government,

00:31the military itself, subordinate to the government, and within that there's a unit called the

00:36coordination of the government inside the occupied territories, in this case Kogat, who have

00:41constantly said we should never have stopped the humanitarian supply. Here, Tom, I'm going

00:45to be openly critical of the decisions of the Israeli government. I'm allowed to be critical

00:50of it. That doesn't mean that I think everything they do is both great or bad. But in this case,

00:55I do not see the impact itself of stopping the humanitarian help. What the Israeli government

01:01will tell you, and I'm not a government spokesperson, is that they will say that that's the only

01:06thing that actually really pressures Hamas. I can't say they're wrong, but I disagree with

01:12them. For me, every human being deserves water, food. That's a basic. I don't like the fact

01:17that we've stopped it. What Israel is saying that they're doing is to make sure that that

01:21doesn't get to Hamas again, that it wasn't getting to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,

01:25that it was being taken over by Hamas.