In December, Israel agreed to a plan with Cyprus to allow aid to come to Gaza by sea. Ships would be inspected in Larnaca and then go to Gaza - a plan strikingly similar to the US and World Central Kitchen initiatives.
The Palestinian Authority rejected the plan, because of the theoretical possibility that the ships could be used to allow Gazans to escape to safety. And who wants that?
Besides thousands of Gazans, of course.
When President Biden suggested a similar plan in his State of the Union speech, the Palestinian government and cabinet were quiet about it. They didn't want to publicly say that they were against a US plan to bring in food and other aid, because that would make them look bad.
But now, outgoing Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh doubled down on his criticism of the idea of aid arriving by ship.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Shtayyeh warned that the sea bridge would become a crossing point for bringing in food but also a way out for displacing Gazans, "despite some reassurances about that."
This story says volumes about how little the Palestinian leadership cares about their own people. And this is the same leadership that the world wants to see take over Gaza.
Just another story that the mainstream media has ignored. But it is reported in Arab media quite prominently.
