[IsraelTimes] Security establishment assesses only half of Hamas tunnels on IDF-controlled side of ceasefire line have been destroyed; 15-year-old said killed by IDF in Gaza
Israel is operating a parallel import system into 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 ...
that allows commercial traders to bring in goods barred to humanitarian organizations, including items classified by Israel as "dual-use," The Guardian reported Thursday.
COGAT, the defense ministry body that oversees aid deliveries to Gaza, denied giving preferential treatment to commercial imports.
Lifesaving items — including some medical and shelter equipment — appear on an Israeli blacklist of dual-use items, which the government says must be tightly restricted because they could be exploited and weaponized by Hamas
 ..always the voice of sweet reason...
or other terror groups in the Strip.
Despite this, Israeli authorities have, for at least a month, let private businesses bring several dual-use goods — including generators and metal pallets — through the same checkpoints that currently block such items for aid groups, the Guardian said.
The equipment is now being sold openly in Gaza markets, said the news outlet, citing military, diplomatic and humanitarian sources.
"It seems highly improbable that the Israelis don’t know about them," the outlet quoted an unnamed diplomatic source as saying. "It’s very shocking that these things are able to enter through commercial channels."
Gazook-born analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib told The Guardian regarding commercial deliveries to Gaza that "you’re not just paying fees and taxes to Hamas in Gaza, you’re paying fees and taxes to merchants on the Israeli side."
"We all know that Gaza was and will always be a massive market for the Israeli economy," he said.
Responding to The Guardian, COGAT said "the policy governing the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip is approved by the political echelon in Israel and implemented by COGAT in a uniform manner vis-a-vis the UN, international organizations, donor countries, and the private sector."
COGAT also denied "preventing or delaying" aid deliveries and said, without specifying, that Israel offers aid groups alternatives to dual-use items.
The report comes amid mounting pressure on humanitarian operations in Gaza. Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry announced this week that the licenses of 37 international nonprofits operating in Gaza and the West Bank would expire on Thursday, after the groups failed to meet new registration requirements. The ministry said the rules are intended to prevent ties to terror groups, while the Defense Ministry insisted the move would not affect aid delivery.
Hamas has accused Israel of refusing to let in sufficiently sturdy shelters, blaming it for the deaths this winter of at least three children who died from cold exposure and 19 people killed by the collapse of structures due to the heavy rainfall.
COGAT says it has let in hundreds of thousands of tents and tarpaulins and is waiting for international organizations to let in close to 100,000 pallets of "water-related items."
HALF OF HAMAS TUNNELS STILL INTACT ON IDF-CONTROLLED AREA
Citing estimates from the security establishment, the Walla news site reported Thursday that only half the Hamas terror tunnels on the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line have been destroyed by the IDF so far.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the IDF to increase its operations to locate and destroy the remaining tunnels, Walla said. The site added that IDF combat engineers and other troops are working around the clock on such efforts and are deploying new methods to render the tunnels unusable.
Israel controls about 53% of the Gaza Strip under the October 9 truce-hostage deal with Hamas that was based on the first phase of US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
’s ceasefire plan.
Israel has killed 416 people amid the Gaza ceasefire since October 11, including one person killed within the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Thursday.
Gaza hospitals received the body of one person killed in the past 24 hours and of one person killed beforehand, the statement said, without identifying the dead or saying where they were killed.
Arabic media had reported Wednesday afternoon that a 15-year-old boy was killed by IDF gunfire in the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line in the southern Strip’s Mawasi, near Khan Younis. The boy’s body was reportedly brought to Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital. The IDF has not commented on the reports.
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