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Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’
CNN ^ | November 19, 2024 | Pauline Lockwood, Hira Humayun & Ibrahim Dahman

Posted on 11/19/2024 7:30:43 AM PST by Twotone

Nearly a hundred aid trucks were looted in southern Gaza on Saturday in what UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described as “one of the worst” incidents of its kind.

Of the 109 trucks carrying food supplies for UNRWA and the World Food Programme from the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, 97 trucks were “lost” in the looting, UNRWA told CNN in a statement Monday.

Drivers were forced to unload trucks at gun point, aid workers were injured, and vehicles were damaged extensively, it said.

UNRWA did not identify the perpetrators of the looting, but blamed the “collapse of law and order” and the “approach of the Israeli authorities” for creating a “perilous environment.”

It said the challenges involved in delivering aid to Gaza had become “increasingly insurmountable,” with “trucks frequently delayed at various holding points, often looted, and subjected to escalating attacks.”

“Well, we have been warning for a long time about the total breakdown of civil order; (until) four or five months ago, we still had local capacity, people who were escorting the convoys. This has completely gone,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told a press conference in Geneva on Monday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; gaza; looted; unrwa
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1 posted on 11/19/2024 7:30:43 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Fine, don’t send any more convoys. Problem solved.


2 posted on 11/19/2024 7:31:33 AM PST by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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To: Twotone

Why aren’t all these Arabs in Cairo? They could have walked there by now.


3 posted on 11/19/2024 7:33:04 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Twotone

Law and order is “acting white,” isn’t it?

De-fund the police, right?


4 posted on 11/19/2024 7:33:21 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Twotone

Oh u.n. warns....🤔😊👍


5 posted on 11/19/2024 7:34:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Twotone

6 posted on 11/19/2024 7:36:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Twotone

If the UN is so observant and caring, why doesn’t Tony Guterres put on one of his baby blue helmets, jump in a Jeep and lead his boyz up to Gaza to stop all the looting and bring some “law and order” to that craphole?


7 posted on 11/19/2024 7:36:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))
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To: Twotone
we have been warning for a long time about the total breakdown of civil order

In a war zone run by terrorist savages, who would have thought?

8 posted on 11/19/2024 7:37:10 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Twotone

“Looted” in Gaza, means the public tried to offload the aide trucks before Hamas could receive and withold all the supplies from the public the aide is supposed to help.


9 posted on 11/19/2024 7:46:34 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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EXACTLY!


10 posted on 11/19/2024 7:50:38 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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11 posted on 11/19/2024 7:53:02 AM PST by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: Twotone

With time, the Palestinians will release the Israeli hostages and beg Israel to restore order. And Gaza’s collapse will help dissipate talk of a Palestinian state.


12 posted on 11/19/2024 7:59:53 AM PST by Rockingham
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Wait, they had law and order in Gaza? When was this?


13 posted on 11/19/2024 8:00:37 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Twotone

There’s ‘law and order’ there?


14 posted on 11/19/2024 8:01:56 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Twotone

BTTT


15 posted on 11/19/2024 8:06:33 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Twotone

is the Ph*quing UnitedNazis still there?
KICK THEM THE H OUT!


16 posted on 11/19/2024 8:08:20 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Twotone

Why are we still sending stuff to them?


17 posted on 11/19/2024 8:09:30 AM PST by AZJeep
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I was in Israel in 2004 when Gaza was handed over to the Palestinians. Overnight, to greet the people of Gaza, the terrorists destroyed job infrastructure providing over 10,000 jobs, e.g., greenhouses and other facilities. The UN became the largest employer overnight. The UN in Gaza is a terrorist organization.

In 2006 while traveling back from the Egyptian Gaza checkpoint, the IDF rolled up between between our embassy vehicles and Gaza. We were taking small arms fire. The IDF company cover us so we could return to Tel Aviv.

I have witnessed the immediate aftermath of explosions by bombers and have watched them from the roof of the embassy fropping backpacks with explosives at the rear entrance.

The UN needs to be downsized and remade from what it has morphed into.

Iran must be dealt ith in order to stop worldwide terrorist. I am familiar with Iranian terrorist activity in South America and Europe.

A war to defeat Iran requires a worldwide elimination of Iranian presence.


18 posted on 11/19/2024 8:10:49 AM PST by Jumper
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UNRWA did not identify the perpetrators of the looting, but blamed the “collapse of law and order” and the ... Israeli authorities”...

Yeah, like that's a surprise.

19 posted on 11/19/2024 8:11:44 AM PST by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Twotone

Vs. the thriving urban metropolis that Gaza NORMALLY is.


20 posted on 11/19/2024 8:14:51 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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