Up to $29 million worth of aid provided by New Zealand is held up on the Gaza border by Israel, says the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa.
PSNA says this aid is loaded on some of the 9,000 aid trucks sitting ready to try to lift the Israeli created famine. Three months ago, Israel cut off all food, medicine, fuel, and nearly all water supplies entering Gaza.
Famine has begun and the UN has cited 14,000 babies at imminent risk of starving to death. It estimates 600 truckloads of aid a day is necessary to feed the people in Gaza. Gaza’s own food production has been destroyed by Israel.
Some 70 percent of Gaza is already occupied by Israel or under Israeli evacuation orders.
New Zealand Foreign Minister, Winston Peters last week said the humanitarian situation in Gaza is ‘simply intolerable’.
But PSNA Co-Chair, John Minto says that since then, as Israel refused to allow more than a trickle of aid into Gaza, and instead escalated its already horrific military onslaught, Peters’ only public statement has been to offer condolences for the shooting of two Israeli diplomats in Washington.
“Our government’s selective indifference to mass murder is making all of us complicit.”
Minto says New Zealand has taken a lead in the past and must do so again.
“Our government should be advocating internationally for the enforcement of a protective no-fly zone over Gaza, and a multinational military protection for aid convoys so they can go into Gaza whether Israel approves them or not.”
“At home we should be sending Israel an equally clear message. We must send the Israeli ambassador packing and immediately sanction Israel by ending all trade and other links,” Minto says.
“As each day passes with no concrete action from New Zealand, our government is linking us with the most massive and ongoing war crime of the 21st century.”
“Our government will never live down it’s complicity but might salvage some credibility by acting now.”
If only they hadn’ t attacked Israel in the first place… Numpties.
Ignorantly selective view of a very long conflict; “see no evil” before?
77 years.
‘If only they hadn’ t attacked Israel in the first place… Numpties.’
WTF are ‘they”? All the women, children and old people living in Gaza?
Is it not easier and more honest to just say you want to kill all the Palestinians?
If only Israel had not started a land grab as in the 1967 land war.And if only the USA had not decided it could make billions by arming Israel and lying about the threats from Iran as an excuse for doing so .
Hen whatever Hamas are is no f’ing justification for slaughtering people who have nothing to do with Hamas. If Israel wasn’t full of land thieving bastards Oct 7 wouldn’t have happened.
All Hamas has to do is surrender. It appears they don’t care about their population.
Again no justification for Israeli bullshit. How do all those women and children stop Hamas?
Winstone need to get some balls and stop arrrrse kissing he is making me sick the old coot
Mass murder is evil. With no peace in sight and an organisation committed to
Israel’s destruction (and one that is prepared to sacrifice its population in service of this goal) Israel is absolutely right to defend itself. The fault lies with Hamas and its enablers.
Sorry Hamas do not want Israel destruction they removed that from their charter 20 odd years ago.
Hen get up to date with the facts. As Geoff Lye says Hamas removed that from their charter years ago.
Still Hen never let a few lies get in the way of a good story.
Hen read a few things, like just MSM junk. I have all of these academic books in my house, I think you might have a different story to put out there if only you would take the time to read properly!
A very short history of the Israel Palestine Conflict – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
The forgotten Palestinians – A history of the Palestinians in Israel – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
The biggest prison on earth – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
On Palestine – Noam Chomsky (Jewish)
The Invention of the land of Israel – Shlomo Sand (Jewish)
My Israel Question – Antony Lowenstein (Jewish)
The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein (Jewish)
Israel a Beachhead in the middle east – Stephen Gowans (Canadian, he also has an excellent blog)
The Last Earth – Ramzy Baroud (Palestinian)
The making of Hamas’s foreign policy – Daud Abdullah (former Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain)
The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (deceased, middle East journalist)
The Question of Palestine – Edward Said (Palestinian)
Palestine a four thousand year history – Nurma Masalha (Palestinian)
Freedom Next Time – Resisting the empire – John Pilger (deceased, journalist, written many books and docos).
Please donate to Gaza Famine Relief https://gogetfunding.com/gaza-famine-relief/ We transfer money to Aid Workers in North Gaza to buy what food is avalable who set up community food kitchens. The children of Gaza 47 percent of the population did not start this war and need your.help to reduce hunger ihttps://gogetfunding.com/gaza-famine-relief/
You can hate Hamas and everything they stand for (as I do), you may hate what they did (as I do), but if you think what is happening in Gaza is justified or okay then you need to go check your moral compass, because it’s gone wrong.
To somehow blame all the people living there is insane. To justify the “collateral damage” of babies is insane. And to think that Israel is going to “win” this is the biggest insanity of all.
Netanyahu is a fucking prick
And if Winston Peters wasn’t a zionist puppet who’s probably on video doing unspeakable deeds at their embassy- he’d endorse allowing that aid in by any means necessary. There is no value to the lives of genocidal zionist monsters.
If Hamas surrendered the war wouldn’t stop, not until Israel has ethnically cleansed the whole of Gaza of Palestinians.
There are no Israeli hostages in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority, not Hamas are in control in the West Bank.
This hasn’t stopped the Israelis ethnically cleansing the West Bank of Palestinians.
The three stooges in the photo are looking on with glee and will follow the IDF hand book hence the recent push to increase our so called defense force against the imaginary enemy.Just like the USA created Iran as the excuse to sell arms to Israel .Seymoure will be saying to Luxon I will knight you if you let me kill off the Maori .Winston wont care because he thinks he is a white fella ,till the first bullet hits him between the eyes .
Israeli society and its leaders have been described as being in the grip of ‘genocidal mania’. You couldn’t get a much more sicker example of someone in the grip of genocidal mania than the Israeli envoy to Britain and the UK.
Piers Morgan asks the Israeli ambassdor to Britain, Tzipi Hotovely, How many innocent civlilians are you prepared to kill?
Her answer?
100,000. were killed by the Americans in Tokyo.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8QFN8XmtMU
Piers Morgan @13:54 minutes:
“How many Palestinian, innocent lives, women, and in particular children, are you prepared to kill?….”
Tzipi Hotovely @14:24 minutes:
“You need to understand how Western armies operated in the past. Israel is not anywhere near to the American attacks on Tokyo, that killed 100,000 civilians…..”
The people of India and Africa understand how Western armies operated in the past, The people of the Phiippines and Korea and Vietnam also know and understand how Western armies operate.
Genocide has always been in the tool kit of Western armies.
The indigenous people of settler colonies, America, Australia and New Zealand, know and fully understand how Western armies operated in the past, they don’t need to have it demonstrated to them again by Israel.
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Israel calls them “hostages” Hamas calls them prisoners, funny how in every cease fire negotiations the issue of prisoner exchanges are discussed. Just saying.
Q) Why does Gaza keep firing rockets into Israel?
A) It keeps them occupied…
Thankyou, thankyou.
Hen May 31, 2025 At 10:52 am
Q) Why does israel keep firing rockets into Gaza?
A) It keeps them occupied
There, fixed it for you, Hen…
No human beings should be forced into pens to beg for scraps from their oppressors.
nathan June 2, 2025 At 2:24 pm
Xenophon – Correct…I wish John Minto would spend some time in Gaza……
I don’t know about John Minto. But I have already spent some time in Gaza and intend to go there again to try and get the 9,000 trucks loaded with aid blocked at Rafah moving again.
I am volunteering to go to Gaza to be a human shield to shield the aid trucks and their Egyptian drivers from the IDF starvation genocide army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3h6uf1igk
As it all starts to unravel
The Irish Government officially recognises that genocide is being committed in Gaza by Israel.
And in the UK, parliamentary cowards who support the genocide back down when challenged by the Speaker.
British MPS who verbally support the Genocide in Gaza, feeling the weight of history breathing down their necks, back down when asked to put their names in writing to oppose a bill to investigate Britain’s role in the genocide.
In his dystopian ballad ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’ Bob Dylan wrote, “The executioners hand is always well hidden.” Those responsible for killing, especially those responsible for killing innocents, don’t want to be known to be the ones responsible for the killing.
A remarkable demonstration of executioners not wanting to be identified, came this week in the British Parliament.
YouTube
Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to expose Starmer’s support for Israel
102,679 views Jun 5, 2025
……the former Labour party leader today demanded an independent inquiry into Britain’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza and tabled a bill to get this debated in parliament next month.
Jeremy Corbyn @0:09 minutes:
Thank you Madame Deputy Speaker I beg to move that leave be given to bring in a bill to make provision for establishing an independent public inquiry into UK involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza to require the inquiry to consider any UK military economic or political cooperation with Israel since October 2023 including the sales supply or use of weapons, surveillance aircraft and Royal Air Force bases….
[pertinent to New Zealand] @7:16 minutes:
…..What legal advice has the government received, over an assessment of genocide, and when will it publish this advice?
Jeremy Corbin @9:25 minutes:
,,,,Today if this bill is agreed, and I hope it will be, this will be a step forward in opening up the murky history of what’s gone on. The murky arm sales, and the complicity in appalling acts of genocide.
The interesting part comes when the speaker puts the bill to the house, the speaker has to put the bill three times against shouted opposition.
The speaker puts the bill.
A large number of MPs shout their opposition to the bill.
The sperker puts the bill again
A lesser number of MPs again shout their opposition to Jeremy Corbyn’s bill.
The speaker reprimands them.
The Speaker @10:01 minutes:
I will remind members that vote must follow voice.
A member who opposes the motion by shouting “No” may not then vote in favor of it if there is a division. So I’ll give it one more go.
The question is; That the honorable member have leave to bring in the bil…..
I didn’t know this, but in the British parliament it seems you can’t verbally vote no to a bill, if you haven’t put your name in witing as being opposed to it. ie. If you havein’t indicated your opposition to the bill, you can’t vote against it.
The speaker puts the bill again for the third time..
All those in favour? “Aye”, all those against?. “Silence”.
The bill passes without objection.
The Speaker @10:30 minutes
I think the ‘Ayes’ have it. The ‘Ayes’ have it.
Watch the whole video Here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGaWOyvG3M
Why aren’t our opposition MPs taking our government to task in the same manner?
Why aren’t our opposition MPs putting up bills, like the Irish opposition MPs did, to get the government to offically recognise that genocied is being committed by Israel in Gaza?
In my opinion if our opposition MPs had the gumption to take the government to task over the genocide in Gaza, we would witness the same reluctance by government MPs to go on the record as ‘Genocide Deniers’.
So why is is not happening?
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