Israel will gradually permit the entry of goods into 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip through the private sector for the first time in almost a year, the government’s liaison to the Paleostinians announced Tuesday, adding another channel for supplies to arrive alongside the aid organizations already operating.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the move aimed to "increase the volume of aid entering the Gaza Strip, while reducing reliance on aid collection by the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
and international organizations."
The announcement, which was criticized by hawkish groups and politicians, came as the UN admitted that 88 percent of the aid trucks it has collected over the past few months did not reach their destination due to looting.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy!he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...
the Israel Defense Forces said an officer was moderately maimed Tuesday by an bomb during operations in the southern Gaza Strip, adding that he was taken to a hospital for treatment and his family was notified.
The IDF also said troops had hit dozens of targets in Gaza, including destroying some of Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...’s tunnels under the coastal enclave, which are a key part of its military strategy.
Images of apparently starving Paleostinians, including children, have alarmed the world in recent weeks, ramping up international pressure on Israel to enable more aid into the coastal enclave where war has been raging since the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel says that Hamas steals supplies from deliveries by the UN and international aid groups. The US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), established to provide aid via an alternative that would keep goods out of Hamas’s hands, has been plagued by near-daily shooting incidents that have seen hundreds killed as they try to reach the GHF distribution centers.
"As part of formulating this mechanism, a limited number of local merchants were approved by the defense establishment, subject to specific criteria and thorough security screening," COGAT said in its announcement of the plan to use the commercial sector.
It said the approved goods include basic food products, baby food, fruits and vegetables, and hygiene supplies and "payments for the purchase of these goods will be conducted via bank transfers only, under a monitoring and oversight mechanism."
The goods will undergo an inspection by Israeli authorities at the border crossings with Gaza before entering the Strip.
In the past year, only aid supplied by the UN or other international humanitarian organizations has been permitted to enter Gaza.
"The IDF, through COGAT, and in cooperation with security agencies, will continue to operate monitoring and oversight mechanisms for the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, while taking all possible measures to prevent the involvement of the Hamas terrorist organization in the processes of bringing in and distributing the aid," the COGAT statement continued.
Israel previously allowed goods into Gaza via the private sector between May and October 2024.
In a November 2024 response to a High Court appeal by human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
groups, COGAT said that "verified indications show that the Hamas terror organization is exploiting the entry of goods for economic and military buildup." It was therefore decided on October 8, 2024, not to allow the continued entry of goods into the Strip via the private sector.
Tzav 9, a right-wing group lobbying against aid to Gaza until the Hamas terror group frees the remaining hostages, panned the development as another "vile blood reward" for Hamas and warned that it would reestablish a method that the group exploited in the past to build its military. The Israeli military has also previously asserted that Hamas was diverting aid from private sector deliveries.
The group said that the new proposed method for delivering aid is "exactly the same way by which materials entered Gaza that Hamas used to build itself up for the slaughter" of October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group led over 5,000 murderous Moslems to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza, triggering the war.
"You have completely lost it," the group wrote, addressing the government’s ministers while noting that they bear full responsibility for the decision.
Opposition MK Avigdor Liberman, who leads the hawkish Yisrael Beytenu party, also criticized the COGAT decision, saying in a post on X that it would amount to "direct funding of the terrorists."
Liberman noted that the private sector pays taxes to Hamas and accused the government of "funding Hamas while our hostages are languishing in the tunnels."