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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

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

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
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 14, 2024

…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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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

WCK round-up: aid groups complain about IDF but won’t leave; WCK suspends operations, sends aid ships back to Cyprus

2024-04-04

Groups accuse Israel of ‘systematic’ attacks on aid workers, but won’t leave Gaza

How can we miss you if you never leave?

[IsraelTimes] Humanitarian NGOs say conditions have become impossible for them, with soldiers disregarding a mechanism in place to allow relief efforts to operate safely

Aid groups said on Wednesday that the international community must treat the Israeli strike that killed seven humanitarian workers 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 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...
as a watershed moment, accusing Israel of "systematic" attacks on civilians and NGOs working there.

Charities told AFP they had no immediate plans to pull out of Gaza after an Israeli air strike killed seven staff members of the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen late Monday. But they said conditions were becoming increasingly impossible, pointing to serious problems with a coordination system that is designed to keep aid workers safe from military activity aimed at rooting out armed members of Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
and other terror groups.

The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
says the bloodiest-ever Gaza war had left nearly 200 aid workers dead even before the Monday night attack, including more than 175 members of the UN’s staff.

How many of the dead were also on the payroll of Hamas or another jihadi group?

The WCK stressed that its staff had come under attack "despite coordinating movements" with the IDF and traveling in a de-conflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and another vehicle.

Israel described the deadly strike as unintentional and apologized for the deadly strike, while vowing to probe the incident, at a time of an outpouring of anger from governments around the world.

But the UN and others say the way Israel has conducted the war puts relief providers and other civilians at grave risk.

"Israel has now killed more aid workers in Gaza than all other armies, militias, and holy warriors in all other wars combined," said Jan Egeland who heads the Norwegian Refugee Council.

"I deeply hope that this terrible attack will act as some kind of watershed moment, and lead to a change in approach," he said, reiterating calls for a sustained ceasefire.

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s policy adviser for the Paleostinian territories, said staff have been "terrified" and tried to minimize their movements.

"There’s been a deliberate and systematic assault on humanitarian aid

efforts, including humanitarian aid workers," she said. "We’ve seen a systematic disregard for the de-confliction system."

’DEEP CRISIS’
Benjamin Gaudin, who leads the Middle East operations of Premiere Urgence Internationale, a La Belle France-based NGO, said his organization had no immediate plans to pull out, even though it was "very difficult" to continue to work in Gaza.

"This attack is catastrophic, not only for the World Central Kitchen, but also for the entire humanitarian community," said Gaudin.

Like other relief groups, Gaudin’s NGO has been seeking to closely coordinate their movements with Israel through a special "platform," but pointed to communications problems.

"So far it hasn’t guaranteed the safety of the organizations, because many incidents have occurred, despite this system being put in place," he said.

Egeland said the notification and coordination system with the IDF was "in deep crisis" and had to be rebooted.

The deadly attack "either shows that Israel has no control over its forces — that indiscriminately attack in Gaza — or that it has never communicated with its armed operations the notifications that it had promised to communicate," he said. "Both would be unforgivable."

Camilla Dogliotti of Handicap International, whose office in Gaza City was destroyed in a bombing strike in late January, said "the level of risk is very high in some southern and central areas of Gaza and unacceptable in all other areas."

"This new attack is first and foremost the consequence of Israel’s continued disrespect of international humanitarian law and of the required protection of civilians, including aid workers, during conflict," she charged.

’UNPRECEDENTED DANGER’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the military had "unintentionally" killed the aid workers, calling it a "tragic case" that would be investigated "right to the end."

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi apologized for the incident on Tuesday: "It was a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, during a war, in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened," Halevi clarified, adding that there was no "intention of harming WCK aid workers."

Since October 7, World Central Kitchen has served millions of meals in Israel and Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Non-political aid agency, founded in 2010, provided over 500,000 meals to displaced, vulnerable Israelis in wake of Hamas attack, has been working for months to get food into Strip. World Central Kitchen (WCK), the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners, the previous night. The group said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region soon.

IDF chief apologizes as details emerge of strike that picked off Gaza aid cars one by one
[IsraelTimes] Halevi: Deaths of 7 WCK staffers ‘a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, in very complex war conditions’; report claims ‘each commander makes his own rules’ in Gaza.

UN suspends Gaza nighttime aid operations following WCK strike

Undelivered food returns to Cyprus after aid workers’ killing in Gaza

And more about the seven who died here.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza war: HRW, Oxfam urge the US to suspend arms sales to Israel

2024-03-22

[AFRICANEWS] Oxfam and Human Rights Watch submitted on Tuesday (Mar. 19) a joint memorandum to the US government regarding Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law including with US weapons and the blocking of US-funded humanitarian assistance.
Golly. I was wondering which side they might be on.
The groups compiled evidence of "Israel's violations of international humanitarian law 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 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...
," and hence "undermining credibility of assurances" it has abided by the rules of the US NSM-20 arms policy.

The release comes as Israel is to submit fresh assurances to the US on its use of weapons provided by Washinton.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Aid from Cyprus to enter Gaza via IDF-built pier; elsewhere the IDF continues clearing Hamasniks from the landscape along with their works and supplies

2024-03-15

Interesting how quickly they moved from mass starvation to mere pockets of famine.

[IsraelTimes] Bloc’s humanitarian chief adds to growing calls for Israel to open more land routes into Strip; charity starts loading humanitarian supplies onto second vessel at Cyprus port

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it was preparing for the arrival 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 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...
of a ship from Cyprus bringing almost 200 tons of food in what will be the first humanitarian aid

delivery by sea, as the EU humanitarian chief warned there are already pockets of famine in the Strip.

The charity ship Open Arms set sail on Tuesday out of Larnaca port, towing a barge containing a load of flour, rice, and protein from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) organization, funded by the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.

The IDF said the aid delivery was being "carried out in coordination with Israeli security and civilian authorities, in accordance with the directive of the government of Israel and at the request of the US government."

The ship was to be inspected by the Israeli Navy at sea once it gets to around 20 nautical miles from the Gaza coast, according to information seen by The Times of Israel. From there, the aid ship will be escorted by the Navy and Air Force toward Gaza’s coast. At a certain stage, an Israeli vessel will tow the aid to a makeshift temporary pier built by the IDF in the central Gaza Strip.

If Israel has already built a pier, why is the American one trumpeted by President Biden in his State of the Union address needed?

The distribution of the aid itself will not be carried out by the IDF. An Israeli official previously told The Times of Israel that the WCK was responsible for getting the food to Gazook civilians.

At the coast, the IDF will secure the aid at a distance from the air and sea, similar to how it has secured convoys on the ground.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
a second ship with a larger cargo of food aid to Gaza was being loaded in Cyprus on Thursday, WCK said.

The charity said it was loading a vessel at Larnaca port with 300 tons of food aid — including legumes, canned tuna, vegetables, rice and flour.

"Our pallets should be screened and loaded by the end of the day Cyprus time," the WCK said in a statement. It did not say when that vessel would set sail.

The IDF is also carrying out trials of delivering aid directly to northern Gaza using a new military road,

…the one everyone was fussing about, because God forbid the Israelis make it easier for themselves to hunt down Hamas, etc hard boys…

while various nations continue to carry out airdrops.

The expected arrival of the ships comes amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The EU’s humanitarian aid and crisis management chief Janez Lenarcic said Thursday that there were already pockets of famine in the enclave, and warned it could spread to the whole region. Speaking to journalists, he urged Israel to open more ground routes to deliver aid to Gaza.

”In fact,” he added, “best would be for Israel to knock down the entire security wall surrounding Gaza — except Egypt’s section, of course — and let everyone go in and out unmolested, no matter their intentions or the explosives tucked into their back pockets.”

Lenarcic’s comments came a day after 25 organizations, including ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International and Oxfam, said airdrops and efforts to open a maritime corridor were "no alternative" to land deliveries because they could only provide a fraction of the aid needed.

The goal here, clearly, is to deliver a lifestyle to the Gazans on par with the nicer neighbourhoods of Paris, London, and Rome, at no cost to to the inhabitants.

Additionally, Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos hosted a virtual meeting on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
and senior ministers and officials from Britannia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to discuss the maritime corridor.

"The ministers agreed that there is no meaningful substitute to land routes via Egypt and Jordan and entry points from Israel into Gaza for aid delivery at scale," they said in a joint statement.

They also called on Israel to open the port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, for aid deliveries.

the IDF said Thursday that troops of the elite LOTAR counter-terrorism unit located rocket launchers adjacent to a school and rockets under a bed in the home of a Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
operative in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF said troops have been raiding Hamas hideout apartments and other sites in various neighborhoods of Khan Younis. The military released footage of troops discovering a rocket launcher, which had already been used, as well as the cache of weapons in the home of the Hamas operative.

Additionally, the IDF said that troops on Wednesday spotted and struck a group of murderous Moslems after they launched a mortar from central Gaza at Israeli border communities. The mortar fell short and impacted inside the Strip, and within five minutes the cell was located and killed in an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, the IDF said.

Also in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men over the past day, including by calling in airstrikes and through tank shelling.

In southern Gaza, the 98th Division continued to battle Hamas in the Khan Younis area.

The IDF said the Givati Brigade raided buildings in Khan Younis’s Hamad Town residential complex, locating a rocket launcher in one of them. Givati troops also called in an airstrike on two Hamas operatives spotted in their area, the IDF said.

In the Bani Suheila area, the 7th Armored Brigade spotted and called in tank shelling against three operatives that were approaching them, and also called in an airstrike on two operatives near a Hamas weapons depot, the IDF said.

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Arabia

WFP comments on assassination of one of its staff in Taiz, local cops arrest two

2023-07-23

Yemen, amirite?

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The World Food Program of the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
(WFP) officials expressed their grief over the liquidation of one of their employees in Taiz province, southern 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...
, on Friday.

"The WFP is deeply saddened that a dedicated staff member was killed in Yemen today (Friday) by unknown button men," a spokesperson for the WFP said in a press statement.

"We cannot comment further at this time," he added.

Gunmen in the city of al-Turbah, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition forces, assassinated the Jordanian WFP employee, Moayyad Saeed ‎Hameidi, who works as head of the program, with six bullets that led to his death instantly.

The coalition-controlled areas in Taiz province are witnessing major insecurity, and almost daily liquidations, in addition to armed festivities between the UAE-backed factions on the one hand, and the Saudi-backed "Islah Party" militias on the other.

Yemeni police arrest 2 suspects in killing of senior World Food Program official

[AlAhram] Yemeni police on Saturday arrested two suspects in the killing of a senior World Food Program official the previous day, authorities said.

Ten others were also detained for their alleged involvement in the killing of Moayad Hameidi, who had recently arrived in the country to take the post of the head of the World Food Program in the southwestern province of Taiz.

Taiz police did not provide further details.

On Friday, two button men riding on a cycle of violence

shot Hameidi in the town of Turbah. He died shortly after reaching a hospital. The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

Hameidi, a Jordanian, was the latest aid worker to be killed in Yemen, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 2014. He had just arrived in Taiz a few days ago to assume his role as head of the WFP office in the province.
"Next!"
Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city and the quiet provincial capital, has been under siege by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets

to the city’s residents.

In May 2021, an aid worker with the Oxfam charity died and another was maimed when they were caught in crossfire in the country’s south.

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