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Israel would not allow fuel into Gaza even if all hostages are released, Mark Regev, a senior advisor to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has told CNN. He said:

At the moment we have no interest in more fuel going to the Hamas military machine and we have not authorized fuel, we have authorized medicine, we have authorized water. We’ve authorized foodstuffs, we’ve not authorized anything else.

Asked if Israel would allow fuel to enter Gaza if all hostages were released, Regev said Israel’s position would not change.

The government decision is that fuel doesn’t go in because it will be stolen by Hamas and it’ll be used by them to power rockets that are fired into Israel to kill our people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/23/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-airstrikes-gaza-aid-rafah-border-crossing-egypt-white-house-joe-biden-latest-news?page=with:block-653723c48f082cf83f9c2ccf#block-653723c48f082cf83f9c2ccf

In other words, everyone in Gaza is guilty and will be punished equally, regardless of culpability, and Israel’s victory condition in this war is genocide, regardless of what happens to the hostages. This regime that the U.S. is in bed with is not being led by good people, folks. This is not the way.