Lack of Plan for Governing Gaza Formed Backdrop to Deadly Convoy Chaos

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Lack of Plan for Governing Gaza Formed Backdrop to Deadly Convoy Chaos

Patrick Kingsley
Sun, March 3, 2024 at 11:37 AM EST·6 min read

JERUSALEM — Israel’s reluctance to fill the current leadership vacuum in the northern Gaza Strip formed the backdrop to the chaos that led to the deaths Thursday of dozens of Palestinians on the Gaza coast, analysts and aid workers have said.

More than 100 were killed and 700 injured, Gaza health officials said, after thousands of hungry civilians rushed at a convoy of aid trucks, leading to a stampede and prompting Israeli soldiers to fire at the crowd.

The immediate causes of the chaos were extreme hunger and desperation: The United Nations has warned of a looming famine in northern Gaza, where the incident occurred. Civilian attempts to ambush aid trucks, Israeli restrictions on convoys and the poor condition of roads damaged in the war have made it extremely difficult for food to reach the roughly 300,000 civilians still stranded in that region, leading the United States and others to airdrop aid instead.

But analysts say this dynamic has been exacerbated by Israel’s failure to set in motion a plan for how the north will be governed.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/lack-plan-governing-gaza-formed-163705772.html

Original NYT link (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/middleeast/israel-aid-gaza-convoy.html

[Lonestarblue]

1. Israel needs to just get out of Gaza--and the West Bank--and leave Palestinians to form their own government.

When Palestinians have their own state and do not live under Israel’s yoke of degradation, they will not support Hamas and risk losing their state. As long as Israel has its heavy boot on their necks, they will fight.

[Mosby]

2. Israel left Gaza in 2005

There are no settlements, no IDF, no Jews in Gaza.

Since 2005 Hamas has started 4 wars with Israel and fired more than 8000 rockets into the south of Israel.

[TheKentuckian]

4. They don't give a flying fuck about a state and never have.

The only state they care about is a Jew free globe, the destruction of Israel, and some bullshit Caliphate.

They don't fight much either because fighting isn't a massacre starring rape gangs on kids at a peace festival and old people sleeping with a heaping helping of hostage taking.

Honorless fucks.

[Mosby]

3. They are throwing stones at trucks

This one was attacked and crashed.

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