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2024-03-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestinian clans and factions step in to protect Gaza aid, sources say
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian officials say Hamas
 ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s ability to rally such groups behind it over security shows it retains influence despite Israeli troops in Gazoo
Armed and masked men from an array of clans and factions have started providing security for aid convoys in 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
as Hamas tries to keep its clout in the enclave, Paleostinian officials and sources in the terror group say. Video footage obtained by Rooters showed a convoy of trucks entering Gaza City with foreign aid overnight, watched by several men armed with AK-47 assault rifles and others wielding sticks.
With Israel sworn to eliminate Hamas following its deadly October 7 raid on Israel, it has become highly risky for anyone linked to the Islamist group to emerge into the open to provide security for aid deliveries to desperate civilians. So numerous clans, civil society groups and factions — including Hamas’s secular political rival Fatah — have stepped in to help provide security for the aid convoys, according to the Paleostinian officials and Hamas sources. They did not identify the clans and factions but said Hamas’ ability to rally such groups behind it over security showed it retains influence, and that efforts by Israel to build its own administrative system to keep order in Gaza were being resisted.
"Israel’s plan to find some clans to collaborate with its pilot projects of finding an alternative to Hamas didn’t succeed but it also showed that Paleostinian resistance factions are the only ones who can run the show, in one way or another," said a Paleostinian official who asked not to be named.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined comment, saying specific rules of engagement in an active war zone could not be publicly discussed.
CIVIL ORDER STRAINED
Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007 following a violent mostly peaceful coup, has built its popularity on social services, education programs and charities it offers impoverished Gazooks.
With public order strained and civil police having concerns about providing security for fear of being targeted by the Israeli military, the safe distribution of supplies has become increasingly hard to guarantee.
Dozens of Paleostinians were killed last month after crowds surrounded a convoy of aid trucks entering northern Gaza. The IDF’s probe into the incident in late February found that troops stationed in the area did not open fire on the convoy itself as Hamas had claimed. Rather, the probe found that shots were fired at several Gazooks who moved toward soldiers and a tank at an IDF checkpoint, in a way that "posed a threat to them." Israel said many victims had been trampled or run over, and that its troops opened fire only after its troops felt threatened by the advancing crowd.
A senior Israeli official, speaking to Rooters on condition of anonymity, said Israel was open in principle to Paleostinians securing areas of the Gaza Strip cleared of Hamas, and could even approve the formation of an armed police.
"But this is more of a day-after (the war) enterprise than something that could be implemented as a policy right now. We would need to be assured that the individuals have no Hamas ties — and certainly that they are not directly or indirectly serving Hamas interests," the Israeli official said.
Juliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN refugee agency UNRWA, had no information about masked men securing convoys. Jamie McGoldrick, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Paleostinian Territory, said the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
was not working with clans.
"We’ve been trying to get the Blue Police (Paleostinian civil police) back on track again. There have been a number of incidents where the blue police have been targeted by Israel, because they regard them as part of the Hamas infrastructure," he said.
"And so we are trying to find the best way suitable to have delivery of assistance into the north and other parts of Gaza Strip. That is a combination of using community groups, etc. And where we can use the police in a discreet manner as well."
Shimon Freedman, spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Ministry liaison agency for Paleostinian civilian affairs, said the distribution of aid in Gaza was the responsibility of international organizations.
"While we assist in that distribution and we help coordinate those convoys and allow them to go through our humanitarian corridor, the aspects of that are up to them," he said.
As part of plans for running Gaza after the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has considered empowering local representatives not affiliated to Hamas or other terror groups, but it is unclear who those people might be. Gaza has large traditional family clans, affiliated with political factions including Hamas and Fatah, which dominates the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank. Some of the larger clans are widely believed to be heavily armed. Some clan leaders have publicly rejected Israel’s plan and said they cannot take the place of UN relief agencies helping Paleostinian refugees, or be a substitute for local authorities.
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