Live Webcam of Humanitarian Aid at Gaza-Israel Crossing

Last week I interviewed Peter Lerner an IDF spokesperson working at the Kerem Shalom border crossing. This is the largest checkpoint/border crossing between Israel and Gaza, and it is where humanitarian aid is being transferred.

According to Lerner, no donation has been turned away, referring to the units of blood, ambulances, medical gases, food, and staples that have been donated from around the world to Gazans.

If you're involved in debating about the Gaza-Israel conflict, and are curious to see what is happening for yourself (this one's for you Annie Lennox), now you can watch humanitarian aid travel through the Kerem Shalom Crossing on your desktop.

The Israel Defense Ministry started operating a live feed of the cargo crossing point. The feed will operate during the 3 hour ceasefire every day, and includes three cameras showing the points of access and exit of the terminal.

It can be viewed here

I personally find the Kotel Cam (live feed at The Western Wall) to be much more inspiring in these troubled times. You can read more of my commentary on the conflict (like it or not) on the post "The Israeli Palestinian Conflict Is An Ancient Story."

Comments

[Michale32086]

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More importantly, no argument, none whatsoever, can be made in defence of the death of any civilian - on either side - so "morally and ethically" are ideas you may wish to revisit in terms of definition.
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You are wrong.. If that were true, then the US and allies should have stayed out of WWII....

As tragic as it is when innocent civilians die, it should NOT be the one factor that determines a military response.. It simply CANNOT be... If it were, then HAMAS' tactics of using Human Shields and placing their military hardware amongst innocent civilians would win the day.

And THAT simply cannot be allowed to happen..

In the immortal words of Joe Bob Briggs, "I'm surprised I have to explain this stuff."

Michale......

[CATO90025]

Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled "Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question." And every year the vote is the same: it"s the whole world on one side; Israel, the United States and some South Sea atolls and Australia on the other side. The vote this past year was 164-to-7. Every year since 1989"in 1989, the vote was 151-to-3, the whole world on one side, the United States, Israel and the island state of Dominica on the other side.

We have the Arab League, all twenty-two members of the Arab League, favoring a two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. We have the Palestinian Authority favoring that two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. We now have Hamas favoring that two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. The one and only obstacle is Israel, backed by the United States. That"s the problem.

Beautifully truthful--by Norman Finklestein

[Michale32086]

Two questions..

1> Does HAMAS concede Israel's right to exist??

The answer, according to the HAMAS charter is "NO"..

2> Has HAMAS committed terrorism against Israel?

The answer is YES..

Ergo, the ONLY logical conclusion is that HAMAS, not Israel is the "one and only obstacle"...

"These are the facts. And they are undisputed."
-Kevin Bacon, A FEW GOOD MEN

Michale.....

[MMIIXX]

Israel broke the truce ...end of story

[LeeCalif]

Israel hasn't censored this because of it's propaganda value.

But reporters & cameramen cannot shoot where the massacre is taking place.

[Karin Kloosterman - Huffpost Blogger]

Reporters want in to Gaza to win their Pulitzer Prizes... if it bleeds, it ledes.

[Halter]

Hamas rockets hit an Israeli retirement home and a kindergarten last week. No casualities-no press. Israel's government , rather than building tunnels, has built bomb shelters. Israel doesn't hide behind the skirts of its women and children.

The West Bank is hunkering down and continuing with business as usual. Egypt wants no responsibility for Gaza, which used to be part of its domain. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Why aren't those so vociferously supporting Hamas expending as much energy supporting the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka?

[bbrecht]

Thank you for posting this on behalf of the IDF who are now allowing shipments across the border after cutting off aid completely for two months. Now that Gaza is under fire and no one can travel to get food, or medical supplies or even help--- now the aid is allowed to travel across the border.

CEASEFIRE now. Stop killing innocent people.

[Karin Kloosterman - Huffpost Blogger]

I am not posting this on behalf of the IDF. I am posting this as an Israeli citizen who is concerned for the safety and security of her people and soldiers.

[jackoo]

almost a 1000 palestinians for not even 30 israelis, is not enough to satisfy you people.....
shame on you even the ignorant would tell which is right and which is wrong

may be the fake picture made by americans and of course israelis on arabs blinded you ..still

[Karin Kloosterman - Huffpost Blogger]

We are not competing over which side has the bigger body count, jackoo.

Israeli citizens have had enough of the years of rocket attacks. It is a country defending itself from terrorists.

[bbrecht]

This is not self defense! This is a one sided obscene war.

[almazza98]

So how should the Palestinians defend themselves from Israel's brutal occupation. Please give me suggestions.

[DC]

You have the IDF talking points down. The assault on Gaza is not self defense, even though you might believe it. In fact it is the opposite. This will weaken Israel in the longer run and any rational strategist sees this. And those rockets could have been stopped without an assault on an entire people.

Israel's best defense is making a fair and honest peace with its neighbors. It can be done. Yet Israel's leadership has lead its people down a path of self destruction on the insane inner belief they can get rid of most all Palestinians over time.

And in response to your fellow propagandist and name-caller Micheal below: criticizing Israel has nothing to do with being an "Israeli-hater." In fact, just the opposite.

[Elderlady]

Why won't they let the doctors in to treat the wounded?

the blame is legally, morally, and ethically......... wait.......

There has been no legal, moral or ethical behavior in this whole mess --- from the State of Israel.

Why should "humanitarian aid" have to be brought in to the Palestinian people?

Give them the tax money Israel owes them. Give them the natural gas money from the two offshore wells. Let British Gas come in and explore the strip, and drill if plausible. Legally the natural resources belong to the Palestinian people.

The Palestinians wouldn't need the Israelis to supply them with anything. They could sustain themselves.

But then...... how could they be "demonized". If they were a viable, self-sustaining community?

The "terrorist" label probably would not apply. They could supply their own water, their own power. They would not be dependent on Israel for anything.

[SiberianRat]

I agree, Elderlady.

[Karin Kloosterman - Huffpost Blogger]

Tax money owed to them? You'd have to pull it out of the coffers of Arafat's wife.

Palestinians will have no means of sustaining anything, until they pull themselves together and work with each to build, rather than destroy. They were handed fully functional greenhouses after Israel left the Gaza region a few years ago. Google up on what happened to them. You know what, I think giving them offshore natural gas wells in the Mediterranean Sea sounds like a brilliant idea!

Palestinians are not being demonized. The Hamas are.

[almazza98]

You are an ignorant person. They were handed fully functional greenhouses? And no water, no food, no fuel, no electricity, no medicine. Sorry, don't think Israel is as generous as you claim it to be. And GIVING them offshore natural gas. You can't give something that isn't yours, you RETURN IT!!!!

[SiberianRat]

Interviewing and IDF spokesman is hardly impartial. John Ging from the UN just gave a scathing news conference about the deplorable conditions in Gaza. ALL reports coming out of Gaza indicate that there is a humanitarian disaster there. Israel conveniently won't allow anyone in to investigate. Luckily, there are a few journalists there documenting what's happening.

[Karin Kloosterman - Huffpost Blogger]

War is not a picnic. Israel cannot let every Tom, Dick and Harry into Gaza. It needs to protect its own national security. And make sure that internationals are not put in harm's way.

[almazza98]

And what was Israel's reason for not allowing Palestinian Students who were awarded US scholarships and Student Visas from leaving GAZA, "To Protect its own national security"

[Michale32086]

Excellent Cam site, ma'am..

Do you have the link for the English version?

Thanx...

Regardless this should dispel any claims that Israel doesn't care about the humanitarian side of things.

I say it SHOULD dispel those claims. But probably won't..

Many people are bent on hating Israel, regardless of the facts..

And that's just sad...

Michale.....

[maddogbitesback]

If only Israel had allowed the necessities of life rather than strangling Gaza, things would be different. If only Israel hadn't refused to help ambulances trying to get to the wounded. If only white phosphorus weren't used.

One web cam at this juncture is hardly going to make up for the bombing of a UN school, the blockade or the many hundreds of checkpoints where women have died giving birth because they couldn't get through a checkpoint. And many babies have died too. It is an atrocity which web cams will not make up for.

[Michale32086]

If only HAMAS would have agreed that Israel had a right to exist and if only HAMAS hadn't fired rockets at innocent Israeli civilians, all of the rest could have been avoided..

The blame is legally, morally and ethically on HAMAS...

Michale......

[onefemalecanuck]

Hey Michale - here's a thought for you: Israel has EXISTED since 1948. The organization of Rabbis (nuteri karta) doesn't agree that Israel has a right to exist...so what's the problem?
ISRAEL EXISTS, mate.

You can really & in good moral standing base your argument on a potentially nihilist philosophical argument? Seriously, man?

The rocket attacks were in response to the two years of strangulation which Israel had inflicted upon the civilian population of Gaza; the BLOCKADE that has caused a massive humanitarian crisis - addressed by *all* of the towering authorities in the NGO / humanitarian orgs. This blockade was supposed to be lifted as a part of the ceasefire agreement, but it wasn't, and so Israel was every minute breaking that agreement. Read up at Amnesty, Oxfam, MSF and even at the EU...read up months and months back...

Also, read up at Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper and pay attention to their investigative reporting that finds Israel's aggression has been in the planning stages for MONTHS.

More importantly, no argument, none whatsoever, can be made in defence of the death of any civilian - on either side - so "morally and ethically" are ideas you may wish to revisit in terms of definition.

When folks like you let go of the hierarchy of suffering placing certain "tribes" above others is the day we'll make some room for "morality and ethics". But not as it stands now, couched in the context you present.

MORALLY AND ETHICALLY, the rights sit with

[SiberianRat]

I agree completely.