Hamas Seizes Food Aid
Report: Hamas Starves Palestinians by Stealing Food, Selling on Black Market
JOEL B. POLLAK
The Hamas terrorist organization is starving Palestinians in Gaza by stealing food that arrives in humanitarian aid shipments and then selling it on the black market, according to Zvika Klein, editor of the Jerusalem Post.
Those who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices are going hungry, he said — not for lack of aid deliveries, but because Hamas seizes the aid on entry and uses it to enrich itself and fund its ongoing war against Israel.
Klein’s account of the situation in Gaza corroborates anecdotal information from social media videos, showing people selling food supplies delivered through international humanitarian aid in marketplaces within Gaza.
In an op-ed, Klein explained:
“The food shortage and use of the word ‘hunger’ have been exaggerated,” a senior Israeli defense official told me on Thursday during a briefing. “There is no hunger in Gaza,” he said, explaining that most of the food that Israel has been sending into the Strip has “immediately been taken by Hamas terrorists, who then sell some of the supplies for ten times more than what it’s worth.”
A former senior Israeli defense official who I spoke to on condition of anonymity has also said that “there is no food shortage in Gaza; there are those who are hungry since Hamas has taken all of the food and they don’t have enough money to pay Hamas on the black market.”
According to this former official, the food does not reach those who need it most since Hamas controls approximately 70-80% of the area. What happens is that Israel and foreign countries bring food and aid into Gaza. Then gangs take the supplies at gunpoint, and a significant portion of the population is left unable to afford necessities.
This is going exactly as anyone with functioning grey matter foresaw, perhaps worse. In other news an air-dropped pallet of relief supplies had a parachute malfunction, augered in and killed five.
Five killed and 10 injured in Gaza aid airdrop when parachute fails to open
Package ‘fell down like a rocket’ on roof of house near al-Shati refugee camp where people were waiting, a witness says
The Guardian
Category: Gaza 2023, Good Idea Fairy, The Stupid is Strong
I can just see Superman dodging pallets:
https://youtu.be/UOZTrjV_OMg?t=19
How come Jimmy and Lois didn’t recognize Superman as Clark Kent, Possibly because Clark took his glasses off. Good thing he did because if everyone recognized him, there wouldn’t be a half hour show.
Clark wore a business suit in everyday life but hid his
crossdressing from Jimmy and Lois.
He would be ok in todays media workplace but back then
he would have been laughed at and scorned.
Being able to fly saved him.
Somali 1993 all over again…
The world drops aid to the starving, and the brutal warlords hijack it for themselves. A Democrat in the White House, and we’re “aiding” the bad guys again. The more things change the more they stay THE SAME…
Did none of the “smart” people think this through or is this something to appease the pro Palestinian voters in this country.
I suggest bundling 2 pro Palestinian supporters per pallet of food dropped to ensure proper rationing. No need for parachutes for them as the pallet already has one. The money saved can be spent on more food.
Problem solved and money saved (trademark being processed).
We don’t need to do all that. Just ask for volunteers to hand out rations at the newly built port facility. What could go wrong?
/sarc Déjà vu,,, (Are Shughart and Gordon available to get another MoH?)
Exactly. That was a mostly peaceful food distribution. Rinse, wash repeat until there are no more volunteers.
Da UN…
I’m glad that these DC peeps weren’t running the Second World War
Side note, 2008 or so and the young lady cashier sees my USS Okinawa cap and asks me if I was a World War ONE Veteran. I asked her if she learned about our Wars in school and right now the old noodle is inert for her answer… Am glad she asked me that because I would have been over 100+++ at the time and looking 63 years young.
Once Dementia Joe gets that taxpayer funded floating dock off the coast of Gaza, watch former UNWRA members, aka Hamas, occupy dry land adjacent to the dock to receive it for “distribution to the needy” aka Hamas members.
Laced with Carter’s Little Liver Pills? Might change their attitude.
Reached for comment by the media, gradeschool kids responded:
Rowan, I Loved Black Adder and Mr. Bean
Hack Stone recalls someone forecasting just the same scenario a day or two ago on a This Ain’t Hell thread. Now, who was that guy who posted. He must have a Magic 8-Ball.
Didn’t need no Magic 8-Ball to see this coming, Mr. Stone. Twas as obvious as Phil would be blowing winos behind the dumpsters at the Flying J every Friday night.
Some folks (dems) are surprised that terrorists act like self centered… terrorists???? How could that happen. Everyone knows hamas are all humanitarians… right?
Ge whiz, what a surprise – NOT! Third world savages are going to do that every time.
Ladies and gentlemen! Professor Doctor Jack Shit Esquire in the MFing house!
May this message find you well.
Joe’s Handlers do not know him.
Do joes handlers know Joe or is he someone they get all comfy and check on a couple times a day (maybe).
Savages gonna savage…
Intercepted by Warlords…
President Bill Clinton at McDonald’s – SNL – YouTube
Good thing it wasn’t a US airdrop that used the wrong ‘chutes and descended too quickly. Funny that the individual called the casualties martyrs (or was that a mistake by the translator).
If only there were a safer, more expedient way to get food aide to the people… without the vehicles being half filled with war supplies, and driven by criminals!