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Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations

2025-05-31

[IsraelTimes] But assertion has been made by Israel since beginning of war, and while new aid group says it has fed over 2 million meals this week, that has only amounted to 40 trucks-worth of aid

A senior Israeli defense official briefing news hounds on Friday asserted that Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
is losing control of Paleostinian civilians in the 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 a rusty 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...
Strip, as the new Israeli-backed aid initiative ramps up its operations aimed at preventing the terror group from diverting aid.

The assertion that Hamas’s grip in the Strip is slipping has been made repeatedly by Israeli officials since the beginning of the war.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced Friday that it had distributed over two million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza over the past five days. But its classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.

The two million meals came from 23,040 boxes of food GHF said it had distributed this week. But this amounts to around just 40 trucks worth of aid when international organizations have asserted that aid from at least 300 trucks needs to be distributed each day in order to fend off famine in Gaza after Israel blocked aid from entering the Strip for 78 days.

Still, the Israeli defense official was bullish about the tide turning against Hamas while briefing news hounds Friday on condition of anonymity.

"The barrier of fear from Hamas has been broken. Hamas repeatedly tried to break the population and resist the distribution plan to preserve its ability to control food and, consequently, the residents of the Gaza Strip," the defense official said.

"The residents of the Strip voted with their feet against Hamas and flocked en masse to the distribution centers, thereby breaking an initial barrier of public fear from Hamas, which undermines its governing component needed to preserve its ruling capabilities," the official said.

According to the official, the new aid distribution system is intended first to cut Hamas off from the aid — as it is no longer involved in the distribution process — and secondly to cut the population off from Hamas, potentially collapsing the terror group’s civil rule in the Strip, which is one of Israel’s war goals.

The official slammed "many elements within Hamas and UN organizations that defame and hope for the failure of the aid distribution plan via the distribution centers."

"Elements in Gaza and within Hamas are trying to create chaos and disorder to sabotage our efforts and drive a psychological campaign and generate a false narrative," the official added.

Of the 238 trucks of aid that set out from Kerem Shalom to be distributed in Gaza in recent days, 135 were looted, according to military estimates. The looting was largely carried out by civilians, and in some cases, armed gangs who had no affiliation with Hamas, the military official said, underlining the terror group’s weakened control.

According to the official, to enable the UN to collect and distribute the aid entering Gaza, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) held meetings with UN officials, and several adjustments were made to the transportation routes — some of which had gone through combat zones — and other logistical solutions were provided.

Still, COGAT has accused the UN of failing to collect over 550 truckloads of aid waiting on the Gaza side of Kerem Shalom Crossing.

UN officials and aid groups say they have faced significant challenges distributing the aid because of insecurity, the risk of looting and Israel’s failure to provide safe routes for them to pick up the aid at the border and then ferry it to warehouses ahead of distribution.

14 SAID KILLED AMID DOZENS OF IDF AIRSTRIKES
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
on Friday, hospital officials and paramedics said Friday that Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza killed at least 14 more people and maimed others.

Officials at Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza said the bodies of 12 people, including three women, were brought in Friday from the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp.

The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said the bodies of two people, as well as nine others who were maimed, were taken to al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City. It said one of the maimed is a doctor who works at the same hospital.

The IDF said it struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip, which included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, observation and sniper posts, tunnels and other terror infrastructure.

Hamas separately published an unusual video purporting to show its operatives detonating an bomb against what it says are "undercover" Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

The Friday video shows a group of gunnies in civilian clothing being hit by a bomb.

Some reports from Gaza indicated that the gang is affiliated with Yasser Abu Shabaab, a leader of a large clan in the Rafah area.

Abu Shabaab claims his forces have been protecting aid convoys, while Hamas has accused him of looting the aid trucks and maintaining connections with Israel.

Israeli officials declined to comment on Abu Shabaab’s or other militias’ activities in Gaza.

Also on Friday, Haaretz reported that the primary activity of Israeli forces in Gaza has become the systemic destruction of infrastructure. The IDF says it is being done in order to protect soldiers, adding that Hamas is using much of the infrastructure for military purposes, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has talked about destroying homes in Gaza so that civilians have nowhere to return, making it easier to advance US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
’s mass emigration plan. Netanyahu last week made implementing Trump’s plan a condition for ending the war.

UN slams ‘armed individuals’ who stole medical supplies from field hospital warehouse in Deir el-Balah
[IsraelTimes] The United Nations says a group of “armed individuals” raided a warehouse in central Gaza and looted large amounts of medical supplies.

“Today, a group of armed individuals stormed the warehouses at a field hospital in Deir el-Balah, looting large quantities of medical equipment, supplies, medicines, and nutritional supplements that was intended for malnourished children,” says Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Dujarric also says that “yesterday, we and our humanitarian partners only managed to collect five truckloads of cargo from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.”

“The other 60 trucks had to return to the crossing due to intense hostilities in the area,” Dujarric adds.

An Israeli official says his country has offered the UN logistical and operational support, but “the UN is not doing their job.”

The official, who speaks on condition of anonymity because he’s not authorized to talk to the media, says other organizations have succeeded in collecting aid from the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing. The official declines to provide details on how many truckloads were collected or which organizations were able to collect them.

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