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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is answer to ‘broken aid system,’ says group’s head

2025-07-03

A taste.

[IsraelTimes] Rev. Johnnie Moore, executive chairman of controversial new GHF, tells The Times of Israel that safety and order will improve, blames Hamas for violence and disinformation

Rev. Johnnie Moore is a believer, in more ways than one.

The 41-year-old clergyman was one of US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
’s early Evangelical backers, a man whose deep faith has brought him to refugee camps in Africa and to palaces of Middle Eastern leaders.

He also believes that the humanitarian aid

initiative that he runs in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
as executive chairman is the antidote to a fundamentally flawed humanitarian system that has caused human suffering well beyond the war-torn Strip.

"I’m a Christian," Moore told The Times of Israel on Friday. "I can’t think of anything more Christian than feeding people. I happen to also believe that a broken aid system has only prolonged suffering not just in the Gaza, but all over the world."
Meddling often does.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started distributing aid on May 26, following a nearly three-month Israeli blockade amid a war that has already seen shortages that have plunged Gaza into a humanitarian crisis.

The secretive group has touted its delivery of 52 million meals since its launch, but this has been marred by reports of near-daily shootings of Paleostinians who trekked long distances while crossing IDF lines to reach the small number of GHF distribution sites.

I can’t think of anything more Christian than feeding people.

The effort runs counter to the mainstream aid community, which argues that the organization is unable to meet needs in Gaza and allows Israel to use aid as a weapon by determining who can receive it. Critics, including much of the international community, have also accused the GHF of putting aid seekers in harm’s way by placing the distribution centers in IDF-controlled zones and requiring Gazooks to walk long distances in order to reach them.

On Tuesday, more than 165 major international charities and non-governmental organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Amnesty, called for an immediate end to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Responding to the aid groups, GHF called on them to join their operations.

"Instead of bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines, we would welcome other humanitarian groups to join us and feed the people in Gaza," the statement said. "We are ready to collaborate and help them get their aid to people in need. At the end of the day, the Paleostinian people need to be fed."

Moore said the mainstream aid groups cling to "a commitment to the existing system almost with fundamentalism... actually prolonging this conflict and causing more suffering to the Gaza people."

An official working for an international organization providing aid to Gaza told The Times of Israel that "those working to provide aid are almost always guided by morally good intentions. But good intentions don’t guarantee good outcomes."

The aid effort in Gaza reflects a closed culture shaped by moral tribalism, where participation and loyalty to group values are prized above critical evaluation, even when the consequences are harmful.

"Humanitarians cannot assume that providing aid in war is universally good," explained the official, granted anonymity in order to speak openly. "Aid can be manipulated by bad actors, and upholding core humanitarian principles like neutrality isn’t always possible, or even ethical. Speaking and thinking critically about aid in any context, including the war in Gaza, shouldn’t be taboo. It’s accountability."

The aid official concurred with Moore that "the aid effort in Gaza reflects a closed culture shaped by moral tribalism, where participation and loyalty to group values are prized above critical evaluation, even when the consequences are harmful."

The GHF has also come under criticism for near-daily reports of lethal violence against civilians traveling to aid centers or waiting for them to open.

Last week, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 549 people had been killed and 4,000 had been wounded trying to pick up aid from GHF sites or while waiting for UN food trucks since the GHF launched.

The numbers have not been verified, but between May 27 and June 24, there were at least 19 IDF shooting incidents related to humanitarian aid distribution, according to a review of reports out of Gaza conducted by The Times of Israel.

“Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families,” the international aid groups said in their joint news release on Tuesday.

On Monday, the IDF admitted in a statement that it has killed several civilians near aid sites in recent weeks and said it has learned lessons that will help it avoid similar incidents in the future.

Moore said that when there are incidents, he can pick up the phone and call the IDF, which investigates. “The difference between the IDF and Hamas is Hamas lies about everything all the time.”

He blamed Hamas for “intentionally killing people in order to disincentivize them from accessing aid or to further their disinformation campaign that our free food distribution sites are somehow traps.”

The difference between the IDF and Hamas is Hamas lies about everything all the time.

“We’re not denying that there haven’t been tragic incidents in the Gaza Strip of people seeking aid, and they’ve been harmed,” Moore continued. “We just don’t know what’s true and what isn’t true. What we do know is what has and has not happened in our sites. There hasn’t been violence in our sites. There hasn’t been violence in proximity to our sites that we’ve heard or that we’ve witnessed. What we do witness every single day is some arbitrary, I believe, arbitrary number that comes from Hamas that’s reported by the press because somehow Hamas has decided it.”

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

170 NGOs urge end to US-backed Gaza aid system; Israel: Hamas is firing at civilians

2025-07-02

[IsraelTimes] NGOs’ call comes as 500 reported killed since May near aid sites; IDF says it has taken steps to reduce casualties; Foreign Ministry says Hamas shooting at civilians, falsifying death tolls

A group of more than 170 aid organizations on Tuesday called for an end to a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution system in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
amid repeated reports of people being killed while seeking rations.

Translation: “How dare those outsiders poach on our patch, cutting us out, when we share the boodle with Hamas?”

According to Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
-linked authorities in Gaza, more than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centers or transport routes guarded by Israeli forces since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operating in late May.

The NGOs urged a return to the UN-led aid mechanism that existed in the war-torn territory until March, when Israel imposed a full blockade for several weeks on humanitarian assistance entering Gaza following a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.

"Paleostinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families," the aid organizations said in a statement. The groups included Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Amnesty International.

They urged action to "revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies."

GHF told Rooters it had delivered more than 52 million meals in five weeks and said other humanitarian groups had "nearly all of their aid looted."

In a response, the GHF told Rooters it had delivered more than 52 million meals in five weeks and said other humanitarian groups had "nearly all of their aid looted."

The GHF added, "Instead of bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines, we would welcome other humanitarian groups to join us and feed the people in Gaza."

The statement was published as the IDF said it had taken new steps to limit civilian casualties near aid distribution sites. It also comes as US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in the 20-month war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next week to discuss the war, in addition to other topics.

Israel said it tasked GHF with distribution in Gaza to keep Hamas from controlling the flow of aid. The IDF acknowledged on Monday that Paleostinian civilians have been harmed at the aid distribution sites, saying that troops had been issued new instructions following what it called "lessons learned."

According to the military, troops on the ground have only used live gunfire when a threat was posed to them, including when dozens of suspects approached forces outside of the designated routes to the aid sites operated by the GHF, or outside operating hours.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry accused Hamas of shooting at civilians and publishing false corpse counts.

Ah hah!

It posted recordings to social media that, it said, show Gazooks describing how the terror group "fires at civilians at these humanitarian sites, spreads false claims blaming the IDF, inflates casualty numbers, and circulates fake footage — all to disrupt aid efforts and keep the people of Gaza away from much-needed aid."

The GHF has been tasked with distributing aid in the Paleostinian territory since late May, following mounting international condemnation and warnings of imminent famine.

GHF operations have since been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on those waiting to collect rations in the territory, where the Israeli military is seeking to destroy Hamas.

"Under the Israeli government’s new scheme, starved and weakened civilians are being forced to trek for hours through dangerous terrain and active conflict zones, only to face a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful, chaotic race to reach fenced, militarized distribution sites," the NGOs’ statement read.

Aid distribution in Gaza was traditionally coordinated through various NGOs and United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
agencies, notably the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, which had 13,000 staff in the coastal enclave before the war. Israel has accused UNRWA of collaborating with Hamas and taken steps to restrict its activity.

At a presser in Vilnius on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel hoped to work with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
to improve aid distribution.

"We are open... we don’t want Hamas to use the humanitarian aid

as an economic asset...but we want it directly to go to the people of Gaza," he said.

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Britain

UK F-35 parts exports to Israel are lawful, High Court rules

2025-07-01

[BBC] The UK's High Court has rejected a case brought by campaigners trying to stop the transfer to Israel of all British-made spare parts for US-produced F-35 fighter jets, saying it didn't have the constitutional authority to intervene.

The government suspended about 30 arms export licences to Israel last September because of a risk of UK-made weapons being used in violations of international law in the Gaza Strip.

But the UK supplies components to a global pool of F-35s which Israel can access. The government had argued it could not pull out of the defence programme without endangering international peace.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch expressed their dismay at the ruling.

Both groups had intervened in the case.

"The horrifying reality in Gaza is unfolding in full view of the world: entire families obliterated, civilians killed in so-called safe zones, hospitals reduced to rubble, and a population driven into starvation by a cruel blockade and forced displacement," said Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK.

"This judgment does not change the facts on the ground, nor does it absolve the UK government of its responsibilities under international law."

The two judges said the case was not about whether the UK should supply arms and other military equipment to Israel - because the government had decided it should not. They were being asked to decide on a particular issue: whether the UK "must withdraw from a specific multilateral defence collaboration" because of the prospect that some UK-manufactured parts may be supplied to Israel and used in contravention of international law in the conflict in Gaza.

The poor darlings do find themselves in a thorny dilemma.

"Under our constitution, that acutely sensitive and political issue is a matter for the executive which is democratically accountable to parliament and ultimately to the electorate, not for the courts," they ruled.

UK industry makes 15% of every F-35, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.

Oxfam, which provided evidence to the court, said: "It is unconscionable that the government would continue to license the sale of components for F-35 jets knowing that they are used to deliberately attack civilians in Gaza and destroy their means of survival, including vital water supplies."

The case was brought by al-Haq, a group based in the Israel-occupied West Bank, and the Global Legal Action Network against the Department for Business and Trade.

The court said that Business Minister Jonathan Reynolds was "faced with the blunt choice of accepting the F-35 carve out or withdrawing from the F-35 programme and accepting all the defence and diplomatic consequences which would ensue".

The government also argued pulling out of the defence programme could undermine US confidence in the UK and Nato.

But human rights groups argue that the global rule of law is under threat over Gaza.

"The atrocities we are witnessing in Gaza are precisely because governments don't think the rules should apply to them," said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of Human Rights Watch.

"Judicial deference to the executive in this case has left the Palestinians in Gaza without access to the protections of international law, despite the government and the court acknowledging that there is a serious risk that UK equipment might be used to facilitate or carry out atrocities against them."

The government says it will continue to keep its defence export licensing under review.

"The court has upheld this government's thorough and lawful decision-making on this matter," a spokesman said.

Lawyers for the human rights groups are considering if they can find grounds to appeal.

The Times of Israel adds:

Al-Haq alleged that the UK broke domestic and international law and was complicit in atrocities against Palestinians by allowing essential components for the warplanes to be supplied to Israel.

The government said the ruling showed it had rigorous export rules and it would continue to review its licensing agreements, a spokesperson said.

The government last year suspended about 30 of 350 existing export licenses for equipment deemed to be for use in the conflict in Gaza because of a “clear risk” the items could be used to violate international humanitarian law. Equipment included parts for helicopters and drones.

But an exemption was made for some licenses related to components of F-35 fighter jets, which are indirectly supplied to Israel through the global spare parts supply chain and have been linked to bombing the Gaza Strip.

While Al-Haq argued the UK shouldn’t continue to export parts through what it called a “deliberate loophole,” given the government’s own assessment of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law, the government said the parts were distributed to a collaboration involving the US and six other partners to produce the jets.

Al-Haq had its offices in Ramallah shuttered by Israel in 2022, 10 months after the Defense Ministry designated Al-Haq and several other Palestinian groups as terrorist organizations over their alleged links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist terror group. The international community has asserted that Israel has failed to provide convincing evidence to back up its claims.

Components manufactured in the UK are sent to assembly lines in the US, Italy and Japan that supply partners — including Israel — with jets and spare parts, the court said.

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Fifth Column

Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ as he pleads for release

2025-06-08

The poor, poor darling. Natural consequences are no fun at all.

[IsraelTimes] Syrian-born US resident and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil was first student arrested under Trump’s expanded immigration crackdown on Gaza war protesters

A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Paleostinian activism on campus has outlined the "irreparable harm" caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release.

Mahmoud Khalil

…at age 30 the Damascus-born Palestinian (with dual Algerian citizenship through his mother, whose family were revolutionaries back home) got a Masters in Paleo protest from Columbia, applying his training as Apartheid Divest’s frontman supporting Hamas since 10/8/2023, which overlapped his work as a UNWRA political affairs officer. Since his arrest by ICE he’s been represented by 19 attorneys, including CUNY law prof Ramzi Kassem, himself a Paleo student activist at Columbia back in the day, and the ACLU. Mr. Khalil worked his way through college in Beirut as a popular, MI-6 vetted local staffer at the British embassy leading soft power projects, on one of which he worked with his future wife, there for the summer on scholarship. No doubt it was for her sake he went to Columbia instead of Oxford…

said in court filings unsealed Thursday that the "most immediate and visceral harms" he’s faced in his months detained in Louisiana relate to missing out on the birth of his first child in April.

"Instead of holding my wife’s hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone," the 30-year-old legal US resident wrote. "When I heard my son’s first cries, I buried my face in my arms so no one would see me weep."

He also cited potentially "career-ending" harms from the ordeal, noting that Oxfam International has already rescinded a job offer to serve as a policy adviser.

”Having a Hamas supporter on staff, especially someone so handsome, with such a diverse and exotic background, is a plus. But we simply can’t have a convicted terrorist — it would bring the wrong kind of attention, my dear. It isn’t at all the done thing.”

Even his mother’s visa to come to the US to help care for his infant son was now under federal review, Khalil said.

Superior efficiency at the US State Department visa section? Kudos to the unnamed staffer who done good.

"As someone who fled prosecution in Syria for my political beliefs,

…and which particular beliefs were those, pray tell? Not all persecution by totalitarian regimes is necessarily wrong…

for who I am, I never imagined myself to be in immigration detention, here in the United States," he wrote.

No doubt.

”Why should protesting this Israeli government’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Paleostinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"

It wasn’t the words, dear boy. It was leading the harassment and physical abuse of Jews, Zionists, and those near them that caught the attention of the new Trump government. That kind of thing is very illegal over here, though your home culture lauds and requires it. Consider this a learning experience.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin responded that Khalil should simply self-deport, taking advantage of the administration’s offer of $1,000 and a free flight to those in the country illegally who use its CBP Home app. Khalil obtained a green card, but the Trump administration says it is revoking it.

*Snicker*

Khalil’s 13-page statement was among a number of legal declarations his lawyers filed highlighting the wide-ranging negative impacts of his arrest.

Given there are nineteen of them, they’ll have had to exert themselves to justify the boodles of money the usual Progressive NGOs have no doubt been shoveling in their direction.

Dr. Noor Abdalla,

…a Lebanese-American dentist of 28, and a hijabi. One does wonder who her family connections are, as nothing at all has been mentioned…

his US citizen wife, described the challenges of not having her husband to help navigate their son’s birth and the first weeks of his young life.

Think of all those Israeli wives, Jews and non-Jews alike who have been doing without their husbands since the IDF called them up after 10/7/2023, and be grateful your husband’s part in the war is both shorter, not likely to be deadly, and has a predictable end.

Students and professors at Columbia wrote about the chilling effect Khalil’s arrest has had on campus life, with people afraid to attend protests or participate in groups that can be viewed as critical of the Trump administration.

Who woulda thunk they were actually trainable! This is a very exciting discovery, indeed.

Last week, a federal judge in New Jersey said the administration’s effort to deport Khalil likely violates the Constitution.

That’s just dumb.

Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote that the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to US foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

Khalil was detained by federal immigration agents on March 8 in the lobby of his university-owned apartment, the first arrest under Trump’s widening crackdown on students who joined campus protests against Israel’s war against terror groups in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...

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Europe

Danish court rejects NGO appeal to ban weapons sales to Israel

2025-04-13

[HodhodYemenNews] Denmark’s Eastern High Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by several NGOs seeking to halt military exports to Israel, despite ongoing genocide in Gaza, reported Al Jazeera. The case focused on the role of Danish authorities in approving arms sales amid Israel’s genocide.

The court ruled that the organizations had no legal standing in the case. It claimed that they lacked a direct connection to the matter. Activists expect to appeal the decision to Denmark’s Supreme Court.

The lawsuit was filed in 2024 by four NGOs, including Amnesty International Denmark and the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq. They accused Denmark of violating international law by exporting military technology and F-35 jet components to Israel.

The rights groups warned that Danish-made parts could be used in attacks on Gaza civilians. They sued the foreign ministry and police, who are responsible for export licenses and policy decisions.

The Times of Israel adds:

The Palestinian human rights association Al-Haq, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Action Aid Denmark filed the lawsuit against the Danish Foreign Ministry and national police last year.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US deems Israel not in violation of law on Gaza aid, despite only partially meeting demands

2024-11-13

Soon they won’t have the power for such games, nor permission to play them, but in the meantime they’re milking it for all they’re worth.

[IsraelTimes] US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel appears to confirm a report that Joe Biden’s administration will not, for now, withhold weapons shipments to Israel, amid today’s deadline it put in place for Jerusalem to take a series of steps to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Patel acknowledges during a press briefing that Israel addressed some, but not all, of the measures demanded by the US in the letter, which gave Jerusalem 30 days to improve the humanitarian crisis or risk being deemed out of compliance with US law that bars offensive weapons from being transferred to countries that block aid from reaching civilians.

Nonetheless, he states that the US has not, at this time, “made an assessment that the Israelis are in violation of US law.”

Patel points to steps taken by Israel over the past 30 days, including the reopening of the Erez Crossing into northern Gaza, the opening of the Kissufim Crossing into central Gaza, the waiving of certain customs requirements for aid organizations, the opening of new aid delivery routes within Gaza, the resumption of aid delivery to northern Gaza after a near-monthlong siege, the inland expansion of the coastal Mawasi humanitarian zone, and the institution of periodic humanitarian pauses.

The State Department spokesperson stresses that the US will continue monitoring Israel’s compliance with US law and will act accordingly if it deems that Jerusalem has failed to do so.

The US said it wanted to see 350 trucks enter Gaza every day. The average number of aid trucks that entered Gaza in October was 37, and Patel admits that only 404 trucks crossed into Gaza between November 1 and November 9.

More from the Times of Israel here, reporting how the Biden-Harris administration only didn’t go through with it because Donald Trump won, and listing the complaining charities:

The report was co-signed by Anera, Care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International and Save the Children.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Gallant says Hezbollah retains only about 20% of its rocket capabilities

2024-10-30

[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Hezbollah maintains only some 20% of the rocket and missile capabilities that it had before the war.

"I estimate the remaining capacity of the missiles and rockets to be in the order of 20%, and also it is not organized in the way that it used to be organized, in a way that [Hezbollah] could fire [large] volleys," he says during a visit to the IDF Northern Command base in Safed.

"There is a deep connection between our strike in Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and what is happening to Hezbollah. Iran understands that Hezbollah does not have the ability to respond, and Hezbollah understands that it cannot rely on Iran," Gallant adds.

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International-UN-NGOs

Almost 40% Of World Bank's Recent Climate Funds Unaccounted For: Oxfam Audit

2024-10-28

[Barrons] Close to 40 percent of World Bank climate financing over the past seven years is currently unaccounted for, Oxfam said in a new report published Wednesday, blaming poor record-keeping.

An Oxfam audit of the development lender's climate finance portfolio between 2017 and 2023 found that as much as $41 billion in climate finance could not be found "between the time projects were approved and when they closed."

"The Bank is quick to brag about its climate finance billions — but these numbers are based on what it plans to spend, not on what it actually spends once a project gets rolling," Kate Donald, the head of Oxfam's Washington office, said in a statement.

The World Bank has looked to boost its climate financing commitment under new president Ajay Banga, who took over last year on a pledge to reform the 80-year-old Washington-based institution.
Re-enforces my belief that those jetting around to attend the dozens of "Elitist" Climate ______ meetings, never used a dime of their own money and in fact likely made $$ Millions doing so.

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Arabia

UN, NGOs express concern over staff detained by Houthis for alleged ‘US-Israeli spy network’

2024-10-13

[IsraelTimes] UN agencies and NGOs express "grave concern" over the referral for criminal prosecution of a large number of their staff who have been "arbitrarily detained" by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets

...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels, and renew calls for their immediate release.

The Iran-backed Houthis have detained dozens of staff from UN and other humanitarian organizations, most of them since June, claiming they are members of a "US-Israeli spy network," a charge the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
denies.

"We are extremely concerned about the reported referral to ’criminal prosecution’ by the Huthi de facto authorities of a significant number of arbitrarily detained colleagues," says a statement signed by principals of affected UN entities and international NGOs.

The Houthi authorities have not issued any announcement in this regard.

The signatories of the statement included WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNESCO head Audrey Azoulay, UN human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
chief Volker Turk and Oxfam International executive director Amitabh Behar.

The Houthis have kidnapped, arbitrarily detained and tortured hundreds of civilians, including UN and NGO workers, since the start of Yemen’s civil war in 2014, according to rights groups.

In June, the Houthis detained 13 UN personnel, including six employees of the Human Rights Office, and more than 50 NGO staff plus an embassy staff member.

The Houthis claimed they had arrested "an American-Israeli spy network" operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations — allegations emphatically rejected by the UN Human Rights Office.

Two other UN human rights staff had already been detained since November 2021 and August 2023 respectively. They are all being held incommunicado.

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Government Corruption

G Merrick Garland Just Made A Public Threat, Using J6 Political Prisoners As An Example Warning Anyone Against Contesting The 2024 Election Results.

2024-10-08

🚨 AG Merrick Garland JUST MADE A PUBLIC THREAT, USING J6 POLITICAL PRISONERS AS AN EXAMPLE WARNING ANYONE AGAINST CONTESTING THE 2024 ELECTION RESULTS.

It’s shocking how he openly stated that anyone who tries to challenge them will end up in prison. pic.twitter.com/E5bPW53GsQ
— Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 (@JakeLangJ6) October 6, 2024

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Europe

Dutch court: Government not violating weapon exports ban to Israel by supplying US

2024-07-14

[IsraelTimes] Complying with previous court order, Netherlands has temporarily stopped sending F-35 parts to Israel, but rights group argues it is sidestepping ban by shipping them to America

A Dutch court on Friday rejected a claim from a group of human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
organizations that the Netherlands is dodging a court order to stop sending F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel by supplying the parts to the United States.

The Hague District Court ruled that Oxfam Novib, Pax Nederland and The Rights Forum had not shown any evidence that the Dutch government was ignoring the earlier ruling.

In February, an appeals court told the Dutch government to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear risk of violations of international law if they are used in strikes on 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 an 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
. The Dutch government appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, but said it was abiding by the order in the meantime by halting direct exports to Israel.

The aid groups went back to court last month, arguing the country was evading the ban by sending the parts to the US, which was then sending them on to Israel. They demanded a fine for the alleged breach.

The groups are "giving too broad an interpretation" to the earlier judgment, the court wrote in Friday’s ruling.

The organizations said they disagreed with the decision and were considering further legal action. "It is unacceptable that the Netherlands remains knowingly complicit in violations of the laws of war by Israel in Gaza," they said in a joint statement.

During a hearing in June, the Dutch government said it was unable to track the parts after they left the Netherlands and warned against placing further restrictions. Reimer Veldhuis, a lawyer representing the government, cautioned that seeking to prevent more exports of F-35 parts to nations other than Israel could put at risk supplies to militaries around the world who operate the advanced fighter jets at a time of soaring international tensions.

The Netherlands is home to one of three F-35 European regional warehouses.

The Dutch Supreme Court will take up the larger case in September.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Floating Pier off the Coast of Central Gaza will be Partially-Dismantled and Towed to the Port of Ashdod

2024-06-16

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U.S. Central Command has announced that the Temporary-Floating Pier off the Coast of Central Gaza, which had just Resumed Humanitarian Aid Operations this Week after being Damaged on May 28th in Severe Weather, will be Partially-Dismantled and Towed to the Port of Ashdod in… pic.twitter.com/ZqCK4VwM9h
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…in Southern Israel due to Rough Seas, which have been Forecasted for the Weekend. They further state that the Pier will be Reinstalled once Weather is Permitting.

The Times of Israel:

UN, aid agencies say transfer of goods from pier to Gazans remains suspended due to perception Israeli military used area during last week’s hostage rescue.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the pier would likely be moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod until sea conditions improve.Aid began arriving via the pier on May 17, and the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
said it transported 137 trucks of aid to warehouses, some 900 metric tons, before the US announced on May 28 that it had suspended operations so repairs could be made.

The UN said on Friday it had still not resumed transportation of aid from the pier to UN World Food Program warehouses.

"Our security colleagues are still working to ensure that secure conditions for humanitarian work can be re-established," said deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq.

UN officials also said they were reassessing the use of the pier, claiming that Israeli military activity nearby had jeopardized the perceived neutrality of the aid route.

Rushing out a mortally maimed Israeli commando after last week’s hostage rescue raid, Israeli rescuers opted against returning the way they came, across a land border, Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told news hounds. Instead, they sped toward the beach and the site of the US aid hub on 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 an 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
’s coast, he said. An Israeli helicopter touched down near the US-built pier and helped whisk away hostages and the commando, according to the US and Israeli militaries.

Israel and the US deny that any aspect of the month-old US pier was used in the Israeli raid. They say an area near it was used to fly home the hostages.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the UN World Food Program, which works with the US to transfer aid from the pier to warehouses and local aid teams for distribution within Gaza, suspended cooperation as it conducts a security review. Aid has been piling up on the beach since.

The UN has to look at the facts as well as what the Paleostinian public and gangs believe about any US, pier or aid worker involvement in the raid, Haq said.

"Humanitarian aid must not be used and must not be perceived as taking any side in a conflict," Haq said. "The safety of our humanitarian workers depends on all sides and the communities on the ground trusting their impartiality."

Rumors have swirled on social media, deepening the danger to aid workers, humanitarian groups say.

"Whether or not we’ve seen the pier used for military purposes is almost irrelevant. Because the perception of people in Gaza, civilians and gangs, is that humanitarian aid has been instrumentalized" by parties in the conflict, said Suze van Meegen, head of operations in Gaza for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Oxfam International and some other aid organizations said they are waiting for answers from the US government because it’s responsible for the agreements with the UN and other humanitarian groups on how the pier and aid deliveries function.

Questions include whether the Israeli helicopters and security forces used what the US had promised aid groups would be a no-go area for the Israeli military around the pier, said Scott Paul, an associate director at Oxfam.

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