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Nearly 70% of Gaza aid from US-built pier stolen
No aid was delivered to the UN warehouse from the floating pier on Sunday and Monday.
Close to three-fourths of the humanitarian aid transported from a new $320 million floating pier built by the U.S. military off the Gaza coast was stolen on Saturday en route to a U.N. warehouse, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Eleven trucks “were cleaned out by Palestinians” on the journey to the World Food Programme warehouse in Deir El Balah in the central Strip, with only five truckloads making it to the destination.
“They've not seen trucks for a while,” a U.N. official told Reuters. “They just basically mounted on the trucks and helped themselves to some of the food parcels.”
According to the United Nations, no aid was delivered to the warehouse from the U.S. military's pier on Sunday and Monday.
https://x.com/phildstewart/status/1792637747212976365
The United Nations said that 10 truckloads of food aid from the pier arrived at the warehouse on Friday, its first day of operation. It was transported by U.N. contractors.
“We need to make sure that the necessary security and logistical arrangements are in place before we proceed,” said the U.N. official.
According to Israeli estimates, Hamas has been stealing up to 60% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip, and a Channel 12 report last week revealed that the terrorist organization has made at least $500 million in profit off humanitarian aid since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
The pier was pre-assembled at the Israeli port of Ashdod before being anchored to a beach in the coastal enclave on Thursday. No American troops went ashore during the installation of the pier, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). Some 1,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors helped build the floating pier.
The Israel Defense Ministry's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit announced on Saturday that “hundreds of pallets of humanitarian aid” and more than 160,000 liters of fuel had entered via the pier.
Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, deputy commander of CENTCOM, said that the goal is for 500 tons of humanitarian aid, or 90 trucks, to pass into Gaza through the pier daily, eventually increasing to 150 trucks a day.
CENTCOM tweeted early Tuesday that over 569 metric tons of humanitarian assistance has been unloaded from the pier so far.
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/1792716582935805956
USAID and the U.S. Department of Defense are leading the effort, alongside Cyprus, the United Nations and international donors, including the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Romania and the European Union, CENTCOM said. The aid is transported via sea from Cyprus where it is screened, and the United Nations receives the aid in Gaza and coordinates its distribution.
Israel is also helping to facilitate the entry of aid via the pier.
Reuters also reported that “food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed.”
Israel took operational control of the crossing weeks ago, but Cairo so far has refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities to facilitate the entry of aid through Rafah. The Israeli government wants to allow aid into Gaza through the crossing but is unable to do so without Egyptian cooperation.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz last week placed the responsibility for averting a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip squarely on the shoulders of Egypt.
Katz said he had spoken with his British and German counterparts “about the need to persuade Egypt to reopen the Rafah Crossing to allow the continued delivery of international humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
While the world places the responsibility for Gaza's humanitarian situation on Israel, he added, “the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now in the hands of our Egyptian friends.”
Meanwhile, COGAT on Thursday approved the resumption of commercial trade between Israel the Strip, with truck deliveries starting the following morning, Israel's Walla! News outlet reported on Sunday.
According to the report, 150 trucks loaded with produce from Israel—not aid—crossed into Gaza intended for merchants who purchased the produce, which is “intended for Hamas members and the civilian population.”
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Because a bunch of
types can be easily scapegoated when israel decides to kill a million civilians
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The Hamas takeover was just macro trends across the Arab world taking place in Palestine, Nasser style Arab socialists(Fatah) were viewed as hypocritical and weak so Qutb inspired Islamist parties(Hamas) came to power promising to cleanse hypocrisy. A large part of this was Egypt getting wrecked by Israel and accepting the existence of Israel violating the three noes. As well as not beating the munafiq accusations. This happened in Algeria as well and people always say that the GiA was controlled by the Algerian government to undermine Islamists. The mixture of Fanon style anti colonialism and Qutb Islamism doesn't recognize civilians and doesn't allow people to hide behind the aegis of democracy or dictatorship. It's the same reason for the sectarianism during the Syrian Civil War(people say this was a CIA op as well), when demographics becomes a foundation of control and bound to a certain political apparatus then genocide becomes a moral duty to protect your group and crack unwanted political control.
Hamas, like all Islamist, portrayed themselves as caring about social justice and built dual power through charity. People actually believed them and didn't think they were voting for
takfiris. Fatah was endorsing attacks on Israeli civilians during this period as well.
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so Israel propped Hamas in the 2000s with a secret plan that in the 2020s Hamas would kill Israelis and launch enough rockets they made out of UN donated water pipes to overwhelm the Iron Dome so that Israel could justify retaliating to kill lots of Palestinians?
did the Queen and the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders help them create Covid too?
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Israel has been slowly taking more and more land and evicting Palestinians from their homes for years without end. There's no secret plan, it's just inevitable that when you try to ethnically cleanse the land you're going to face resistance
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Any atrocity can be justified by the level of "zoom" you want to apply to the timeline.
The huge pile of dead Jews last year had no clue why they were being murdered or kidnapped.
The killers knew why -- Hamas' original charter (which was later softened) included Muhammads instructions to bring about the End of Days by killing all the Jews. And yes, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Revolutionary Iran, and the rest, all know the same prophecy.
Islam's prophetically declared antisemitism is one of two major reasons that there will never be peace in the Middle East.
The other is Serbia -- the cause of WW1, WW2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghanistan War, chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons, tanks, bombing civilians, genocides, massacres, and every atrocity since 1903.
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I know its all very complicated i just think israel should have open borders
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Love me, serbs! Simple as.
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