[IsraelTimes] At least 2 said killed by gunshots at site in Deir Al-Balah, Hamas denies firing; Israel-backed aid group claims terror group falsely reporting injuries at its hubs
Hundreds of Paleostinians stormed a United Nations
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food warehouse in central 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 ...
on Wednesday, shouting and shoving each other and ripping off pieces of the building to get inside, the UN said. Paleostinian hospital officials said four people died in the chaos, two of them shot.
Israel accused the Hamas
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terror group of opening fire. There were no Israeli troops in or near the area of the UN’s World Food Program warehouse at the time, and the IDF is not operating in Deir al-Balah.
"Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution," the UN’s World Food Program said in a statement on X.
"Initial reports indicate two people died and several were maimed in the tragic incident," the WFP said, adding that it was still confirming details.
The WFP said "humanitarian needs have spiraled out of control" after Israel’s long blockade of supplies entering Gaza, which began in early March to pressure the Paleostinian terror group Hamas into releasing hostages and agreeing to a truce.
Officials at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said two people were fatally crushed in the crowd and two others died of gunshot wounds.
Eyewitness video independently verified by Rooters showed large crowds of people pushing into the warehouse and removing bags and boxes, as gunfire can be heard.
Hamas, in a statement, denied that it had opened fire or that it operated the warehouse.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry posted a video of the scene inside the warehouse during the looting, and accused Hamas of opening fire to protect stores that it was keeping from Gazooks.
The incident comes as the independent Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating an aid mechanism that would largely bypass the UN and keep supplies away from Hamas.
The previous day, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said that at least one Paleostinian had been killed and 48 others maimed when a crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new GHF aid-distribution site.
The Israeli military, which guards the site from a distance, said it fired only warning shots to control the looting. The foundation said its military contractors guarding the site did not open fire.
The GHF claimed Wednesday that the casualty figures claimed by Hamas about the Tuesday looting were false and spread by the terror group to hamper the new aid operation.
GHF said only two people have been injured at its compounds since it began operating in Gaza on Monday. "To-date two Gazooks have required medical care that was delivered on-site — one relating to dehydration and another who was injured by others seeking aid," said a GHF statement.
Among the false reports the GHF said Hamas was spreading was that the aid organization halted operations due to gunfire at one of its sites earlier Wednesday.
The GHF further said it had successfully opened its second aid distribution center on Wednesday in southern Gaza.
’THREATS, INTIMIDATION’
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Israel’s Ambassador Danny Danon accused the UN of deliberately undermining the new US and Israel-backed aid mechanism in the Gaza Strip through corrupt means.
Claiming that he has acquired new "shocking information," Danon told the council that the UN "is using threats, intimidation and retaliation against NGOs that choose to participate in the new humanitarian mechanism."
He asserted that a number of "major international NGOs" had been punished by the UN after indicating that they would take part in the new aid initiative and would "ignore the UN’s calls for a boycott."
"The UN’s response was brutal. It was Mafia-like," the envoy said. "Without any discussion, without a due process, the UN removed those NGOs from the shared aid database," a central system for tracking aid deliveries into Gaza established through a UN General Assembly resolution.
Danon, in his speech, did not provide any evidence or the names of the NGOs he alleges were targeted.
Upon request for further information to back the envoy’s claims, Danon’s office told The Times of Israel that it is aware of a certain number of NGOs that the UN worked to prevent from cooperating with the aid plan, but that this information can only be provided by the UN directly.
The UN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Stephane Dujarric, front man for UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, reiterated the world body’s opposition to coordinating with GHF.
"We will not participate in operations that do not meet our humanitarian principles," Dujarric told AFP.
He said the UN was doing all it could to send aid, adding that since last week, 800 truckloads had been approved by Israel, but fewer than 500 made it into Gaza.
The new GHF aid initiative became operational this week, partially replacing the UN-led framework that had previously managed humanitarian assistance in Gaza, following Israel’s decision to lift a nearly three-month aid blockade on the strip.
Israel says it helped establish the new aid mechanism to prevent Hamas from siphoning off supplies, but UN agencies say they have mechanisms for this purpose while delivering aid to all parts of the territory. The GHF has drawn heavy criticism from the UN and various international actors, who argue it falls short of addressing the dire humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
The GHF says it has established four hubs, two of which have begun operating in the now mostly uninhabited Rafah. It said around eight truckloads of aid were distributed at the hubs on Wednesday without incident.
About 600 trucks entered Gaza every day during the ceasefire earlier this year.
The Paleostinian ambassador to the UN broke down as he alleged that 1,300 children have been killed and 4,000 maimed since the latest temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March, and spoke of mothers seen "embracing their motionless bodies, caressing their hair, talking to them, apologizing to them."
Gaza casualty figures, which come from Hamas-controlled authorities, cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
More than half the Security Council called for the 15-member body to act on Gaza. Slovenia’s UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar said some members are working on a draft resolution to demand unimpeded aid access.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 53,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 Lions of Islam inside Israel on October 7.
COGAT says 76 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza today
[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 76 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip today.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2.
Since then, 952 trucks of aid have entered the Strip.
Some of the truckloads have been taken to the new aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The contents of many of the trucks are still awaiting collection on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.
COGAT says the aid delivery comes “following the recommendation of professional IDF officials and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon.”
Today’s trucks include flour and food, COGAT says.
The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it distributed 18 trucks of aid today after opening third site
[IsraelTimes] The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it opened up a third aid distribution site today in the Strip.
The third site is located in the central Gaza’s Bureij, adjacent to the IDF’s Netzarim corridor. It joins two sites that began operating earlier this week in Rafah. An additional site in Rafah is slated to open in the coming days. GHF has faced criticism due to the lack of access for tens of thousands of residents still located in north Gaza, but it says that it plans to open additional sites — including in the northern Strip — in the coming weeks.
GHF says it distributed 17,280 boxes of aid at all three of its sites today.
Each box is meant to provide three meals a deal, for roughly four days, for a family of roughly five people.
The total number of trucks unloaded at the three GHF sites today was just 18, though. The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people.
How Culpable Is the UN in the Gaza War?
[AmericanRefugeesSubstack] You don’t have to look too far below the surface to see how the United Nations, primarily through its branch UNRWA but also en masse, has been—and unfortunately still is— a major enabler of the Gaza War.
The war might not have started and certainly wouldn’t have lasted as long without Hamas having been aided and abetted by the international organization that has an anti-Israel obsession. UN Watch reported last December “UN Condemns Israel 17 Times, Rest of World Combined 6 Times”. (Do I have to go over the many countries were starvation is rampant from Somalia to Congo to—ironically—Yemen that the UN almost completely ignores?)_ A reasonable person could classify this pervasive anti-Israel bias as a mass psychological illness, if not outright evil.
The accusation of evil might seem excessive, but much of the death and destruction in Gaza can be laid at the feet of the supposedly peaceful UN.
Their nefarious role in the Gaza War has been illuminated recently as the US and Israel, through the offices of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), are currently changing the method of food distribution in Gaza that was formerly monopolized by Hamas. A fair amount of predictable mayhem has ensued inthe form of food stampedes, but basically the terms of feeding Gaza have been altered for the better. (These stampedes are going both ways, with Gazan mobs having broken into Hamas’ storage warehouses as well.)
This is a tremendous blow to Hamas because they have used food distribution to maintain iron control of the Strip while profiting from their monopoly financially as to power their war machine, acquiring weapons, paying their terror troops and so forth. Anyone who disobeyed faced brutal consequences.
Amit Segal in his timely daily reports underscores the importance of what is happening.
“… [W]hy was yesterday so significant? Well, Hamas warned Gazans to stay away from the aid distribution complex. Nevertheless, they ignored Hamas’ warnings, with many Gazans trampling their way through a Hamas checkpoint that tried to prevent the food’s distribution.
“In other words, despite Hamas’ threats, a mass influx of aid is coming into Gaza that Hamas does not benefit from. Not only did Palestinians openly defy Hamas in order to receive these packages, but for the first time in nearly 20 years, Gazans are receiving their sustenance without having to rely on the terror group.
“If this continues—and if the level of such aid increases—Hamas’ rule will be in jeopardy.”
Good news, no, not only for Gazans but for all those who seek peace after 600 days of unrelenting violence. Who could oppose it?
Well, not surprisingly, our friends at the United Nations. Seemingly irate about this intrusion into their province, they have accused the new approach and those involved of not being “impartial” and of “weaponizing” food distribution.
Bu it couldn’t be more obvious these are the very things they—the UN themselves— have consistently aided Hamas in doing. It would be laughable fodder for the Babylon Bee were it not so disgusting in its extreme disregard for reality. This is hypocrisy taken to the nth power.
This is the same UN whose “humanitarian chief” as recently as a week ago accused Israel of imminently murdering 14,000 infants. From JNS:
“The United Nations and the BBC on Wednesday corrected a dramatic claim that 14,000 infants in the Gaza Strip faced death within 48 hours, clarifying that the figure actually refers to children at risk of severe malnutrition over the course of a full year.
“U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher made the claim on BBC Radio 4‘s “Today” program, saying: ‘There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.’ The comment was quickly picked up by national media outlets, cited in U.K. parliamentary debates and referenced in international diplomatic discussions.”
This is evil propaganda that not even Hamas itself could duplicate.
By now the role of UNRWA in aiding Hamas in so many ways, including helping hide their munitions, missiles and launchers, command and control centers and so forth under hospitals and schools—all against international law— has been detailed ad infinitum.
With friends like the UN, who needs Al Jazeera?
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