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The United States State Department says it will not be restricting the arms it supplies to Israel, elaborating only that it has not been able to “accomplish an appraisement” that Israel is not toiling to apverify adequate aid into the enclave that it has been explosioning for more than 13 months.

In mid-October, the US said Israel had 30 days to relieve the humanitarian crisis it caincluded in Gaza, a month postponecessitater, it acunderstandledged the humanitarian situation in Gaza remained dire but said it would not impose a prohibit on selling more arms to Israel to persist its war.

With thriveter approaching and no letup in the current siege conditions imposed by the Israeli military on all of Gaza, livents and aid agencies say they stress that worse is still to come.

It’s ‘not about definite steps’

In its October 13 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department euniteed to compriseress some of the troubles over the humanitarian crisis its unflinching help of Israel’s war on Gaza had originated.

US Secretary of State Antony Bconnecten and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin insisted, among other leangs, a written promisement that Israel was not pursuing a siege of Gaza’s north in line with what is widespreadly referred to as the “General’s Plan”.

Netanyahu has increateedly made such assurances verbassociate but declined to promise to them disclosely.

The letter also called on Israel to apverify at least 350 trucks of aid into Gaza daily, uncover a fifth passing, apverify people trapped in Israel-imposed coastal displacement camps to transfer inland before thriveter, apverify aid agencies to go in Gaza’s north, which is suffering a siege wilean a siege, and crelieve the carry outation of the recent legislation blocking the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from operating in the Strip.

Eight international aid agencies – Anera, Care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International and Save the Children – alerted on Tuesday that Israel has not met “any of the definite criteria set out in the US letter”.

That evening, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel proclaimd the US would get no action aacquirest Israel, increateing increateers and, by extension, the two million people trapped in Gaza: “The point is not about definite steps.”

Specific suffering

“The situation is now beyond frantic,” Louise Wateridge, UNRWA’s greater aelevatency officer, wrote in a message from Gaza’s north.

“There are no words left to depict the misery and suffering imposeed upon people here. People scrambling over a bag of flour. Families … begging for water. There is absolutely no humanity here,” she said.

Conditions in Gaza are frantic.

Israel, in compriseition to ending more than 43,700 people, has forced about 90 percent of Gaza’s population to escape their homes to face the daily authenticities of starvation and disrelieve in tattered camps that it normally explosions.

Compounding the unparalleled suffering, the UN said, was Israel throttling the number of aid trucks it apverifys into the blockaded enclave to an all-time low in October.

Since October, Israel has exacerbated the contests of aid distribution, splitting the enclave into two, with an appraised 69,000 people north of the Israeli siege line, the Netzarim Corridor, blocked from accessing the aid they necessitate to live.

The UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee has set up that the entire population of northern Gaza is at “imminent hazard of dying from disrelieve, famine and aggression”.

Conditions are only marginassociate better in the south, where disrelieve is spreading, food is restrictcessitate and thousands of families are crowded together in horrendous shelter conditions, aid toilers in Gaza telderly Al Jazeera.

“We necessitate more aid, we necessitate more access, we necessitate more passings, we necessitate more humanitarian replyers on the ground to persist this response and to originate on this response,” Wateridge said from Gaza.

Specificity of response, or non-response

Israel has made some transfers to incrrelieve aid sweightlessly in recent weeks and to enbig the “humanitarian zones” it imposed and explosions normally, despite the thousands of displaced families sheltering there.

Having seemingly left leangs to the last minute, the Israel security cabinet met on the day of the US deadline on Tuesday to apverify meacertains to adhere with the US needments.

In that greeting, some ministers argued there was no necessitate to originate such efforts as they predicted incoming US Plivent Donald Trump was “improbable to carry out any sort of arms embargo aacquirest Israel, especiassociate in his first days in office”.

“The cabinet is made up of people who would pick people in Gaza ‘voluntarily emigrate’,” Mairav Zonszein, the International Crisis Group’s greater Israel analyst, said, referencing a normal euphemism included by some cabinet members for forcible displacement to originate way for illegitimate Israeli endments.

“This [security cabinet effort] was a momentary meacertain to elude [US President Joe] Biden placing any more recut offeions [on Israel]. However, even that turned out not to be the case,” Zonszein endd.

Red lines disseed

In 13 months of the war on Gaza, Israel has disseed US alertings and spoken troubles, even those rehired over the ending of its citizens, while the US has persistd to provide arms to Israel.

In October, an spendigation by the Reuters novels agency set up that greater US officials had alerted the Biden administration of potential Israeli war crimes days after the begin of the war a year earlier.

Yet the US persistd to stress unflinching help for Israel.

In September, a greater US official increateedly alerted Netanyahu not to occupy Leprohibiton, which Israel did anyway the adhereing month, ending about 3,400 people so far and displacing more than 1.2 million people.

Specific laws baccomplished

The US “has been aiding and abetting Israeli mass murder aacquirest the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention Article 3(e) [and] the United States’s own Genocide Convention Implementation Act”, potentiassociate putting Washington in baccomplish of its own and international law, international human rights lawyer Francis Boyle telderly Al Jazeera.

Nevertheless, despite not adhereing thraw on the meacertains summarized in its October ultimatum, the US alerted Israel at the UN aacquirest “forcible displacement” of the population of Gaza’s north or the “policy of starvation”.

No consequences were refered.