Even as the international crowd complains that supplies are not getting to the Gazans, Israel has approved 500 truckloads awaiting transshipment. Here is the latest excuse for why the trucks are not rolling:
[IsraelTimes] The top US diplomat involved in humanitarian assistance for Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
says Israeli forces earlier this month killed Paleostinian police protecting a UN aid convoy in the enclave’s embattled southern city of Rafah.
Rafah being in Gaza, that means the police are either employed by Hamas or members of Hamas. Got it.
As a result, Paleostinian police have refused to protect convoys, hampering aid deliveries inside Gaza because of threats from criminal gangs, says David Satterfield, Washington’s special regional envoy for humanitarian issues.The criminal gangs are also Hamas, making the whole thing ironic or symbolic of the human condition to a certain kind of mind
"With the departure of police escorts, it has been virtually impossible for the UN or anyone else, Jordan, the UAE, or any other implementer to safely move assistance in Gaza because of criminal elements," Satterfield tells an event hosted by the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.No matter whether they’re wearing Hamas police uniforms or Hamas gunny uniforms, the supplies will still end up under Hamas control, with the first cut going to Hamas and only what little is left over distributed among the suffering unconnected peons
Satterfield says the police escorts include Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...members but also officers with no direct affiliation to the terror group.
So disingenuous. If they’re on the Hamas payroll, they’re under Hamas orders.
Israel’s military did not immediately provide comment on his remarks.They were busy detailing a private to sweep up Envoy Satterfield’s fallen lips.
Satterfield is asked if there was any truth to a report that Israeli troops killed "Hamas operatives" protecting a UN aid convoy in Rafah earlier this month."The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) 10 days, two weeks ago, did indeed strike at seven, eight, or nine police officials, including a commander whose units had been involved in providing escorts," he replies.
Hamas operatives, in short.
Such escorts were needed because of attacks on aid convoys first by "desperate" Paleostinians and "then by criminal elements," Satterfield says.The police "certainly include Hamas elements. They also include individuals who don’t have a direct affiliation with Hamas who are there as part of the Paleostinian Authority’s remnant presence and security," he says, referring to the Western-backed body that exercises limited governance in the occupied West Bank.
On Feb. 10, Hamas and Gaza medics said that two Israeli
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KABOOM!...
s had killed five members of Rafah’s Hamas-run police force, including a senior officer. The same day, Israel’s military said it had struck and killed three Hamas button men in Rafah, including two senior operatives in the area.
It is not clear if Satterfield was referring to the Feb. 10 incident. Hamas has not said if it has stopped police escorts of aid convoys.
If they have not said so, they haven’t stopped.
Satterfield says the US is working with the Israeli government and military to determine "what solutions can be found because everyone wants the assistance to continue."| They aren’t refusing all missions: |
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian teen named Muhammad al-Araja who tried to grab from a humanitarian aid shipment at the Rafah Crossing was shot dead earlier today, apparently by Hamas police, according to unconfirmed Arabic media reports.
After the shooting, many members of the victim’s large extended family began rioting at the crossing, setting fire to parts of the complex and clashing with authorities there.
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