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An Israeli government spokesperson claimed yesterday that Hamas has “enough food to spark an obesity epidemic” after the occupation state decided on Sunday to suspend the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip.

  • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    COGAT tracks the numbers of trucks and goods entering Gaza and provides nice graphs. For the last couple of months there have always been trucks full of aid waiting on the Gaza side of the border for collection. So even if no new trucks are coming in, there will be some aid available to be collected and distributed.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Israel both blocks the trucks from collection after letting them in, and lies about the amount they enter. But also your link is broken mr 2 hour old Hasbara account.

      https://www.npr.org/2024/07/15/nx-s1-5035998/gaza-israel-food-aid-piling-up-not-reaching-those-in-need

      KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER — More than a dozen empty flatbed trucks from Gaza rumble through the opening in the massive concrete wall that marks the border here. They park on the Israeli side and forklift drivers jump into action, loading huge sacks of flour, along with boxes of watermelons, mangoes, tomatoes and onions. Within 30 minutes, the trucks turn around and drive the short distance back into Gaza.

      This scene plays out multiple times daily at Kerem Shalom, now the main artery supplying Gaza with food and medicine. All this activity raises hope that needed aid will reach the more than 2 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza.

      But here’s the catch: Much of this humanitarian aid is piling up on the Gaza side of the border instead of traveling the last few miles to those suffering in the 10th month of the war between Israel and Hamas

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          6·
          9 hours ago

          Have you got any reputable sources which is not the people committing genocide? What’s next citing the Nazis about the Holocaust not being real?

          • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            What credible organization doubts COGAT numbers?

            They are the only ones who have a total count. UNRWA or WFP on their own know about their own trucks, not those of other organizations, or even commercial trucks.

            citing the Nazis about the Holocaust

            The Nazis meticulously documented the Holocaust. That’s why we know so much about it.

            https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/combating-holocaust-denial-evidence-of-the-holocaust-presented-at-nuremberg

            During the trial, the perpetrators themselves never said that the Holocaust did not happen. Rather, they tended to absolve themselves of individual guilt. Neither they nor their defense attorneys claimed that the mass murder of Europe’s Jews did not happen.

            • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              The credible organisation ‘The UN’

              Israel and U.N. disagree over Gaza aid figures

              While Israel says the number of trucks entering Gaza has risen sharply in recent days, the U.N. has given much lower figures, and says it is still far less than the amount required to meet humanitarian needs.

              While Israel said 419 trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, the main U.N. agency there, UNRWA, said only 223 trucks had come in on that day.

              Do you know what the sentence ‘wir haben er nicht gewust’ means? The Nazis were not nearly as meticulous in their documentation as your fantasy leads you to believe. Israel has documented the Gaza genocide far far better than the Nazis have.

              • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
                0·
                8 hours ago

                That is seriously bad faith. Keep reading.

                “The U.N.'s incorrect numbers are a result of their flawed counting method. Rather than counting the actual number of trucks that enter the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to conceal their logistical distribution difficulties, they only count the trucks that they have picked up from the Gazan side of the border,” COGAT said in a statement.

                On Tuesday, Jens Laerke the spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said the Israeli count was for trucks that were only partially filled to comply with its military’s screening requirements. “COGAT counts what they screen and send across the border. We count trucks that arrive in our warehouses,” Laerke said.

                “Trucks that go in, screened by COGAT, are typically only half full. That is a requirement that they have put in place for screening purposes. When we count the trucks on the other side, when they have been reloaded, they are full,” he said.

                Other Israeli restrictions mean the trucks often do not move through the border and into warehouses in a single day, further complicating a clear count, Laerke said.