The UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said Monday that nearly 100 aid trucks that entered Gaza over the weekend were lost to armed looters.
UNRWA said at least 98 trucks of a 109 truck convoy were lost. The convoy was attacked after entering southern Gaza from Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
UNRWA said that the convoy was initially scheduled to enter Gaza on Sunday, but the Israeli military ordered it to leave a day early “at short notice via an alternate, unfamiliar route.”
Last week, Haaretz reported that Israel was intentionally allowing armed gangs in Gaza to loot aid trucks and extort drivers for protection money. The report said that in some cases, the last remnants of Gaza’s police force tried to take action against the looters, but they were attacked by Israeli troops.
Israel has systematically targeted Gaza’s police force throughout the past year. The Israeli military justifies its attacks on the police force by pointing to Hamas’s control over the force, but the lack of police has made securing aid for starving Palestinians much more difficult.
In a sign that Gaza still has some sort of police force, the Strip’s Interior Ministry said Monday that it had confronted gangs responsible for looting aid. “More than 20 members of gangs involved in stealing aid trucks were killed in a security operation carried out by security forces in cooperation with tribal committees,” the ministry said, according to AFP.
“Today’s security operation will not be the last. The phenomenon of truck thefts … has severely impacted society and led to signs of famine in southern Gaza,” the ministry added.
Israel has been enforcing a starvation blockade on the northern cities of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia, not allowing any aid into those areas since early October. But the overall aid situation across the Strip has worsened as October saw the lowest number of aid trucks entering Gaza of any month since the start of Israel’s genocidal war.
"armed looters" another name for terrorists.
Symmetrical contempt: "Zionists," another name for Nazis.
False. A Zionist is someone who seeks a homeland for the Jewish people. There are various types of Zionism.
The Nazis were a government based on the views of Adolf Hitler, who claimed that Germans were a master race and that all others were genetically inferior or even inherently evil. They started a war that killed 70 million people and enslaved millions more.
Learn something about history before embarrassing yourself. This isn't Harvard or Columbia.
Apartheid ethnostate viciously prosecuting ideologically driven genocide for Lebensraum while posturing as multi-generational, international victims.
Learn something about your own advocacy for atrocity and any legally defined and exclusive "homeland" for any group of people. You are not differentiating Zionism from Nazism so far.
Another name for colonialism.
Ha ha. Is that what your professor at Harvard told you?
No, the Israelis are not "colonialists". For one thing, Gaza was a center of Jewish learning going back to Roman times, long before Arabs (mostly from Egypt) arrived (for example, Yasser Arafat's father was born in Gaza to Egyptian parents).
Meanwhile, Hamas is not a legal government and they illegally occupy Gaza, which Israel gave up in 2006.
So – a UN-member nation that is fighting an illegal criminal group over land they illegally occupy is somehow "colonialism"? Wow.
Propaganda is a lot easier to swallow when it makes you feel nice about your participation in ongoing genocide. Offering same to other people who aren't enjoying the crime of this century so far is more like throwing up on strangers while laughing.
Those are bumper stickers, not arguments.
1. You have failed to demonstrate that the Jews are "colonialists", and simply repeating the phrase is not an argument. It becomes part of a false narrative. For example, are the Palestinians descended from Turkish immigrants – during the Ottoman occupation of Palestine – native? No, they are actual colonialists, as the Ottoman was a colonial power. And how about Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat? He was born in Egypt, to an Egyptian family. And the major city in the area, Jerusalem, has had a Jewish majority since the 1860s. Are families that have lived there since the time of the US Civil War "colonialists", while Arafat, an Egyptian, is an "indigenous person"? Of course not.
This isn't "propaganda", it's facts. And uninformed Americans like you should focus on your own country, which is a mess.
"Last week, Haaretz reported that Israel was intentionally allowing armed gangs in Gaza to loot aid trucks and extort drivers for protection money. The report said that in some cases, the last remnants of Gaza’s police force tried to take action against the looters, but they were attacked by Israeli troops."
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/18/un-says-nearly-100-aid-trucks-in-gaza-lost-to-looters/
Inside right-wing Israeli attacks on Gaza aid convoys, who's behind them, and who's suffering from them
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-right-wing-settler-attacks-gaza-aid-whos-behind-them-whos-suffering/
No, just criminals.
Last week, Haaretz reported that Israel was intentionally allowing armed gangs in Gaza to loot aid trucks and extort drivers for protection money. The report said that in some cases, the last remnants of Gaza’s police force tried to take action against the looters, but they were attacked by Israeli troops.
The real terrorists are the ones stopping the Gaza police force (Hamas) from trying to stop the looters.
How can one tell the different between an armed criminal and armed terrorists? As for Gaza police, it is the same thing. If they have a weapon they have to be treated as a terrorists. That is just the way urban warfare works.
Yes, shoot anything that moves…except the looters. Dead people and quicker starvation. Win/win.
Reading your entire comment, I suddenly think your day job is "major American city police officer."
Also it's odd you support(ed) Talibanese and Daeshi'i attacks against criminal/terrorist American troops occupying Iraq or Afghanistan.
As your logic applies there too.
We don't do such things to gun owners, we just make them legal. Problem solved. What do you think motivates them to loot an AID truck, maybe they try to get food for their children? Could you understand that?
Upon reading such disparaging news, I am given pause to wonder, what their next course of action, or objectives might be….People are in such distress and the overall situation continues to spiral out of control. Many think more UN forces need to be utilized…
Here's the problem – which UN forces ? If you're talking peacekeepers, you're faced with a dual problem.
One, that rules of engagement for UNPF soldiers would basically make them "armed civilians" against the IDF and we see what the IDF does to unarmed civilians.
Two, any nation offering troops for a UN peacekeeping mission will get tarred as "antisemitic" by the ASI and USA, and won't have the Public Relations specialists to counter such experts in the field.
Besides, the USA would veto such an action.
Most notably there is that.
""the last remnants of Gaza’s police force tried to take action against the looters, but they were attacked by Israeli troops.""
figures. way to go Israel.
Israel job is too kill Hamas terrorists. You can not have terrorists freely walking around with guns just because they claim to be a policemen.
False.
You don't even know what a terrorist is.
Here at home, not a battle Zone, we have lots of potential terrorists walking around with guns. They kill children in Kindergarten, we got used to it.
So, you have to kill everybody. Except the looters of course. Then you can blame them for the starvation. Good guy terrorists know how to shift the blame from themselves. And no one is better at it than Israel. Of course, it helps when the superpower is all in.
So unAmerican to hate first-responders. A slow-clap for an unclassy ASI, please.
Israel has systematically targeted Gaza’s police force throughout the past year. The Israeli military justifies its attacks on the police force by pointing to Hamas’s control over the force, but the lack of police has made securing aid for starving Palestinians much more difficult.
Ah yes, a win-win for Israel.
Since the Gaza police are part of Hamas, they are targets. If Hamas or Palestinians looters want to steal food from starving children don't blame Israel for low morals of the Palestinians.
I'll post this part one more time for you.
but the lack of police has made securing aid for starving Palestinians much more difficult.
Therefore, win/win for Israel. Now you can blame whoever you want for why Israel does what Israel does, but you can't deny what Isreal does.
Most likely the calculation is to blame Hamas to give the Americans something to lie about for their spokes persons. since they got a nice letter requesting to let aid inside Gaza. The journalists were starting to push back for being used to spread lies being propaganda stooges spreading their lies.
Mentally ill people believe the government always tells the truth
More lies. Is it a weekday already ??