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| Israel punches back at UN chief for demanding probe into Gaza aid site shooting, Amb. Huckabee chastises US news media for fomenting Jew-hate |
| 2025-06-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israel calls a demand from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres for an investigation into reported violence at a Gaza aid site a “disgrace.” “Even if you look very hard, there’s one word you won’t find in the Secretary-General’s statement: Hamas,” writes Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein on X. “Not a word about the fact that Hamas is the one shooting civilians and trying to prevent them from collecting aid packages.” “Not a word about the fact that Hamas — as stated by U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff — rejected yet another ceasefire proposal and the release of the hostages.” Guterres said on Monday he was “appalled” by reports that Palestinians were killed the previous day on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site for aid, that the UN must be allowed to provide aid to Gazans, and said that there is no military solution to the conflict in Gaza. Multiple witnesses and Hamas authorities in the Strip said at least 31 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded early Sunday by Israeli fire as they were on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces said it didn’t shoot Gazans at or near the distribution site, but an Israeli military official acknowledged that troops did fire warning shots overnight around a kilometer away from the aid site. Israel and the United States say they helped establish the new aid system to circumvent Hamas, which they accuse of siphoning off assistance. UN agencies have refused to work with the system, which they say violates humanitarian principles. Marmorstein says that “the real investigation that needs to be opened is why the UN continues to resist any attempt to provide aid directly to the people of Gaza.” Huckabee claims US media ‘contributing to antisemitic climate’ that resulted in DC, Boulder attacks [IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee accuses major American news outlets of “contributing to the antisemitic climate” that resulted in the recent attacks targeting Israeli embassy staffers in Washington and Israeli hostages activists in Colorado over the networks’ coverage of yesterday’s shooting of Gazans near an aid distribution site. “Without verification of any source other than Hamas and its collaborators, the New York Times, CNN, and Associated Press reported that a number of people seeking to receive humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were shot or killed by the Israeli Defense Forces,” Huckabee says in a statement. “These reports were FALSE. Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” Huckabee asserts. It is unclear what drone footage and first-hand accounts Huckabee is referring to. GHF released what it said was drone footage showing no incident at the site, but the clip was taken during daylight hours, while the incident that reportedly injured 31 Gazans took place at around 3 a.m. Asked to elaborate on the information Huckabee had that led him to refute Hamas’s claims, an embassy spokesperson tells The Times of Israel it came from first-hand accounts from GHF staffers. But the incident took place outside the GHF site before it had opened on Sunday. The embassy staffer also cites IDF drone footage, but the footage released by the IDF was not shot at the time or place where the incident in question took place. The spokesperson didn’t provide any further information. While the IDF has denied firing at Gazans near the GHF aid site yesterday, it has acknowledged firing in the air at Palestinians. Doctors Without Borders said its aid workers treated Palestinians who said Israeli soldiers were the ones who shot at them. “The only source for these misleading, exaggerated, and utterly fabricated stories came from Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States,” Huckabee says. “Media sources who willingly parrot these libelous allegations should recant their fake news stories, apologize and pledge to practice actual reporting of fact instead of engaging in dangerous propaganda that assists the terror group Hamas as they continue to hold innocent hostages for over 600 days after butchering over 1,200 people on October 7th,” he says, demanding an “immediate retraction” by the American media sites. Related: Antonio Guterres 05/31/2025 Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations Antonio Guterres 05/30/2025 Four Palestinians die in storming of Gaza UN food warehouse; IDF was not in area Antonio Guterres 05/22/2025 UN says it has ‘collected and dispatched’ 90 truckloads of aid into Gaza Related: Mike Huckabee 05/21/2025 US says it wants Gaza war to end, but denies threatening Israel if it doesn’t comply Mike Huckabee 05/12/2025 Trump disapproves of Netanyahu’s Gaza strategy, thinks major offensive will be wasted effort — NBC report Mike Huckabee 05/11/2025 ‘He’s got your back’: Huckabee says Trump’s decision to skip Israel on Mideast visit isn’t a snub |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 ^ Ouch! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-06-03 19:15 |
#3
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| Posted by: badanov 2025-06-03 18:29 |
| #2 Sure there is a military solution. One that ends with every single Gazan dead or off the land. Permanently. ALL of them. A L L OF T H E M !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-06-03 12:47 |
| #1 BBC Corrects Fake News About Gaza Aid Site — then Publishes Another |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-06-03 11:07 |