As Gaza teeters on the brink of famine, these Israeli girls are trying to block aid trucks at the border

ABC | Eric Tlozek, Orly Halpern and Haidarr Jones at the Kerem Shalom crossing | 10 March 2024

Sadly the same type of young Jewish girls are also using social media to describe all Palestinian’s as ‘animals’ that must be destroyed etc. If only their energy was directed at peace the hostages would never have been taken and so many lives saved on all sides – Mark

While Palestinians inside Gaza face starvation, some Israelis are trying to stop supplies from getting into the besieged territory.
Protesters have been regularly blocking the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza as well as the Nitzana crossing between Israel and Egypt, where trucks come to be inspected by Israeli authorities.
Aid groups and the United Nations are warning of looming famine in Gaza, five months after Israel launched a retaliatory military campaign to eliminate Hamas from the coastal enclave.
In October last year, Hamas-led militants stormed across the border into southern Israel, killing hundreds of civilians and taking 253 hostages back into Gaza.
About 130 still remain in captivity, according to Israeli authorities.
But the demonstrators say no aid should go into Gaza while Hamas holds Israelis hostage.
“We don’t want to give food to people who murdered our people, who take them hostage,” one protester, who declined to give her name, told the ABC.
“The women are being abused, they’ve got no food, and we give food to Hamas?”
Praying, singing and snacking, a small group of about 40 people managed to stop an estimated 200 trucks crossing at Nitzana from Egypt on the day the ABC was there, according to crossing authorities.
They refer to the hostages as their “brothers” and say they should not be forgotten.
“We must strangle them so that they return my brothers,” protester Tirza Nir said.
“What do I care about them? They are my enemy. They murdered my brothers.”
How ‘Order 9’ blocks the delivery of aid
After watching the protest unfold, Israeli police tried to move the activists along.
Female police grabbed a girl who was refusing to leave the road.
“Are you giving to the enemy? Are you collaborating with the enemy? You are giving aid to the enemy,” her friend shouted.
The police effort to move protesters was quickly abandoned when the protesters, without violence, simply refused to move.
A teenage girl was briefly detained and called a “heroine” when she was released.
She rejoined her friends and posed for photos.