The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) has paused aid shipments into Gaza through the US-built pier just days after they resumed as the project continues to fail to bring any relief to starving Palestinians.
WFP chief Cindy McCain said the deliveries were paused due to safety concerns. The US-built pier was just reconnected to Gaza’s coast on Friday after being repaired from damage due to heavy seas.
“I’m concerned about the safety of our people,” she told CBS News on Monday. “We’ve stepped back for the moment … to make sure we’re on safe terms and on safe ground before we’ll restart. But the rest of the country is operational. We’re doing everything we can in the north and the south.”
McCain also said two WFP warehouses in the area were “rocketed” and that a staffer had been injured. She didn’t share details about the shelling of the warehouses, but it came as Israel significantly escalated its bombardment of central Gaza.
McCain’s comments come amid allegations that Israel used the US-built pier in its operation in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp that killed over 200 Palestinians and freed four Israeli hostages. Video of an Israeli helicopter operated near the pier spread online, and Palestinians said Israeli special forces entered Nuseirat in an aid truck.
The Pentagon acknowledged that Israel operated “near” the pier but denied that it or any of the 1,000 US military personnel deployed off the coast were involved. “It was near, but I think it’s incidental. Again, the pier, the equipment, the personnel all supporting that humanitarian effort had nothing to do with the IDF rescue operation,” said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder.
Israel also denied that some of its forces entered Nuseirat in an aid truck, allegations that initially came from eyewitnesses speaking to the media. But on Monday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) formally accused Israel of using an aid truck in the attack.
“The occupation forces deceived people by disguising themselves under the cover of aid that civilians desperately need amid their suffering from severe food insecurity,” the PRCS said. “This endangers the safety of relief teams.”
Other reports said some of the Israeli commandos who entered Nuseirat were disguised as displaced Palestinians from Rafah. The Israeli ground troops were supported by heavy Israeli airstrikes, and Gaza’s Health Ministry said 274 Palestinians were killed in the operation, including 64 children and 57 women. The US supported the massacre with intelligence, including information gathered by US MQ-9 Reaper drones that have been flying over Gaza.
Big deal-if commandos do their business in disguises. Nothing in the least bit wrong.
Next thing Cindy will give them contaminated blankets. … "nothing the least bit wrong there". This is why the latest Zionazi peace initiative has to be presumed another filthy subterfuge.
Very Minsk-y, only with more murder.
Cholera has appeared in Gaza, as if from thin air. It was unknown there prior to the invasion, and is not a disease that can spread by air or appear spontaneously. It's survivable in most situations with rehydration and/or antibiotics, but there's no water and no medicines so it's burning through the population. Even in the unlikely case that Israel didn't introduce it their current actions constitute the usage of biological warfare.
Strong point, all predictable and therefore intended.
Why get the hostages in the manner in which they did? A cease fire and negotiated exchange would have sufficed. But that was not the point for Bibi. He never had any concern for the hostages. The elderly man interviewed by Haaretz said that their biggest feat was the Israeli jets, that they might hit the building they were in. He, and the young woman who were rescued looked to be in pretty good health.
I thought they appeared to be in pretty good shape also, but now I'm hearing that they were malnourished. We don't want to give Hamas any credit for taking care of their captives.
Right. And if they use aid trucks to do military raids, that just means less aid will get in since Hamas won't know if the trucks are legit. But starving people to death isn't "in the least bit wrong" so nothing to worry about in that regard.
Obviously, the aid truck with IDF troops disguised as Rafah Palestinians in it originated from Cyprus on an aid ship and used the US pier to reach Nuseirat camp in Gaza…!
How Coward IDF can get in a warfare…?!
So the US/Israel will kill more aid workers in order to kill Palestinians. “Pentagon says” lies. Lies. And more lies. Who believes them?