Many Biden administration officials wouldn’t be sorry to see Netanyahu go, after his Trump alliance pushed Israel closer to the GOP. But the prime minister isn’t going quietly.
“I watched missiles bring down the first two parts of Shorouq. Then I went to take a shower, came back and saw the middle was destroyed,” he said. There are also longer-term impacts. Before the war, the quartet of companies run by the Khdeir family was set to provide some 40% of the fertilizer, pesticides and other farming supplies for local farmers. Their warehouses, set in a large dirt yard in Atatra, in the northern part of the strip, were now a horror show of toxic pink goop, still-smoking piles of refuse and an evil-looking ooze pool. The smell was nauseating.
Standing nearby was Adham Basyooni, a spokesman for the agricultural ministry, who said the materials damaged here had been allowed in by Israel in the first place.