Gaza police battle gang members accused of stealing humanitarian aid
Gaza police battle gang members accused of stealing humanitarian aid
A UN memo says these gangs 'may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence' or 'protection' from the Israeli army
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The gangs are backed by Israel according to an UN memo obtained by the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/
Accuse Hamas of being Isis (after supporting them financially for decades), then turn around and support actual ISIS to aid in their genocide. Warms my heart to see the most moral army in action.
Israeli soldiers have also set a school on fire right after it got aid to prevent the starving population from getting any aid
This latest aid convoy was also forced to abandon their planned departure time and route by the Israeli military and told to go early and on an unfamiliar route where they wound up getting attacked and hijacked. This was so obviously planned out by Israel.
Didn't this happen some time ago or did they just do it again?
I'm not sure. The one I'm referring to just happened and was the first one after all the recent reporting of the famine and humanitarian issues happening in Gaza.
Is there evidence that the Israeli soldiers did it?
From the Haaretz article:
A school in northern Gaza burned down on Monday, hours after humanitarian aid trucks had arrived to it, according to photos and accounts by locals. Residents of the area said Israeli soldiers had set the fire that consumed the school.
A video seen on social media on Sunday, taken by an IDF soldier, showed two Israeli armored vehicles leaving the school surroundings as it was engulfed in flames
Staff from the UN World Food Program, which sent the aid, as well as other international sources, said Gazans did not even have time to collect the aid. They said the military launched an attack in the area and soldiers had surrounded the building before the food was distributed.
The convoy, consisting of two trucks and a water tanker, was the first to be approved by the military to enter northern Gaza after a month and a half of siege. The decision followed international pressure over the failure to deliver aid to Gazans.
Witnesses said soldiers forced civilians away from the area, preventing them from collecting the aid, which was later destroyed by the fire. Reports also said civilians had been killed at the site. The soldiers involved belonged to the Rotem Battalion in the Givati Brigade, the reports said.
Other footage was posted on Thursday showing fires at schools in northern Gaza. A video from the Jabalya refugee camp showed a soldier standing in the yard of a burning school. Another video showed a large blaze in the Salah al-Din School in Gaza City, which had been serving as a shelter for refugees.
Source on ISIS being behind the looting?
Every source I've seen suggests it's home grown Palestinian gangsters lead by Abu Shabab.
Defense officials confirmed that the IDF is aware of the problem. They said that at one point, the government had even considered making the clans to which the armed men belong responsible for distributing aid to Gaza's residents, even though some of the clans' members are involved in terrorism, and some are even affiliated with extremist organizations like the Islamic State.
So source: the IDF
I did nazi that coming
"The UN says it's the Jews fault that Palestinians are stealing from Palestinians!"
Funny how Palestinians can apparently do no wrong. 🤣
What began in the spring as a largely random phenomenon of desperate civilians stealing from trucks has now morphed into an organized criminal enterprise, aid groups say, and the gangs responsible have become increasingly violent and powerful — compounding the struggle to deliver food, hygiene items and cold-weather supplies to 2 million displaced and hungry people as winter approaches.
How do you read that 2 million people are being deliberately forcibly displayed, starved, and targeted; and respond with a laughing emoji. It's not surprising that everybody in Gaza is desperate for food and aid when they've been starved and bombed nonstop for an entire year. How do you read that and laugh?