Cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. The report culminates a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densley populated area where one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and hejoined me earlier with more. What do you take away from this report . Trying to come down on two sides of the same issue, it is a very interesting report and i think the fact that this criticism of the Israeli Government is very significant in its own right but that is in couched in a whole series of caviar to put the key line is she read out is this that the report finds that it is reasonable to assess the weapons and supplied by T
Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. Last night, a rare warning from President Biden an all out assault will have consequences. They go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. For one former israeli Prime Minister, this is a significant moment the current government squande
After hamas operatives. But the relationship between america and israel, is more strained now, than at any time for a generation. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. Haitham is trapped. After three operations for a bullet wound that punctured his lung, he needs treatment abroad. All set to leave until israel captured and closed the rafah crossing. Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we i have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight
What is the latest on those talks . I would not necessarily use the word progress, they have ground to a halt. Both hammers and the israeli delegations of left cairo in the gap between them appears to be unbridgeable at the moment. That doesnt in the talks are dead and there is enormous pressure to make this work is also the domestic pressure here in israel. And there are protesters trying to put pressure on the Israeli Government to do a deal and they have an expression in hebrew meaning deal now and they think that this government, this relatively far right government of Benjamin Netanyahu is really more interested in Crushing Hamas and getting their hostages out because there was a time back in november when negotiations, mediation and arch of five hostages out alive in almost every week, theres more bad news of hostages who have died either in captivity or found to have not survived the atrocious raids on october seven and the Cease Fire Talks of the moment appeared to have hit a b