Food aid convoy for northern Gaza looted after delay at Israeli checkpoint

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Food aid convoy for northern Gaza looted after delay at Israeli checkpoint

Trucks attacked by desperate people as logistical obstacles and restrictions imposed by Israel limit urgently needed aid

Jason Burke Jerusalem
Wed 6 Mar 2024 16.38 GMT
Last modified on Wed 6 Mar 2024 17.26 GMT

A new drive by the United Nation’s World Food Programme to deliver aid to an estimated half a million people at risk of famine in northern Gaza has failed amid further scenes of chaos and violence.

A 14-truck convoy destined for northern Gaza was looted on Tuesday after being held at an Israeli army checkpoint for several hours, aid workers said. As the convoy turned back after the delay, it was attacked and 200 tonnes of food looted by “a large crowd of desperate people”.

Insecurity, logistical bottlenecks, ongoing fighting and restrictions on movement imposed by Israel have combined to limit aid deliveries to a fraction of what is needed, aid officials said.

The WFP convoy was the first to try to reach northern Gaza since insecurity forced the agency to pause efforts on 20 February despite looming starvation, because Israeli forces had twice shot at desperate Palestinians trying to get food from WFP trucks, senior WFP officials told the Guardian earlier this week.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/06/food-aid-convoy-bound-for-northern-gaza-looted-after-being-stopped-at-israeli-checkpoint

[Beastly Boy]

1. UN was "forced" to delay the convoy since feb. 20, as per UN. Israel held it "for several hours",

as per "aid workers".

Good thing I didn't bet on the Guardian headlines saying "Food aid convoy for northern Gaza looted after a 13-day delay by UN".

And what does "As the convoy turned back after the delay" mean? Where is the evidence that the convoy turned back before the attack? Not even the nebulous "aid workers" said that.

[lapucelle]

2. The Guardian describes the October 7 Hamas butchery as a "surprise operation" in the story.

The war was triggered in October by bloody attacks into southern Israel launched by Hamas. The militant organisation, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, killed 1,200 Israelis, mainly civilians, and abducted another 250 in the surprise operation.

The Guardian describes the genocidal, theocratic, far right terrorist group Hamas as a "militant organization" and a protracted 10 hour spree of torture, rape, necrophilia, and indiscriminate, hands-on butchery as a "surprise operation".

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Shaban Abdel-Raouf, a Palestinian electrician and father of five from Gaza City, said: “Every day costs us dozens of martyrs. We want a ceasefire now,.”

The Guardian also printed - with no context - Hamas's framing of its Gazan victims as "martyrs".

A genocidal, theocratic, far right, terrorist group - the de facto governing power - is sacrificing its people's lives on a daily basis, and The Guardian (desperate for clicks) amplifies Hamas's talking points and fails to inform the reader that it is Hamas that has rejected ceasefires time and time again since it violated the last one in November.

Caveat lector.