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Food aid in Gaza looted hours after Palestinians overran distribution site
New York Post ^ | May 28, 2025,

Posted on 05/28/2025 5:32:28 PM PDT by george76

U.N. trucks delivering food to Gaza were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Palestinians overran a distribution site run by a U.S.-backed group trying to start delivering aid.

The incidents underscore the problems getting supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing worsening hunger and starvation after a weeks-long Israeli blockade.

On Tuesday, Israeli troops fired warning shots as crowds rushed to a distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed group that began supplying aid under a new system, which Israel hopes will prevent aid from reaching Hamas.

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Israeli military also allowed 95 trucks belonging to the U.N. and other aid groups into the enclave, but three Gaza residents and three merchants said a number of trucks were targeted by looters.

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One Palestinian transport operator said at least 20 trucks belonging to the U.N. World Food Programme were attacked shortly before midnight.

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Footage shared on social media showed fences broken down by crowds trying to reach crates of supplies as private security contractors operating the site fell back.

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The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, called it “sad and disgusting” that the United Nations and other groups were not taking part in the new system to distribute aid.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Government; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: food; gaza; government; hamas; israel; supplies

1 posted on 05/28/2025 5:32:28 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

You can bet your booties, Grandpa, that all those supplies will be on the black market courtesy of Hamas. Or be used as a recruitment to further the cause of Hamas.


2 posted on 05/28/2025 5:34:23 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: george76

My shocked face.....😴


3 posted on 05/28/2025 5:34:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: george76
Knowing Arabs, just look on Ebay or Craig's list for where the food went.

4 posted on 05/28/2025 5:36:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: george76

If there is starvation and I doubt it, it is caused by them not us


5 posted on 05/28/2025 5:39:45 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: gildafarrell

Yep…these people arent starving for anything but the chance to loot and sell supplies on the black market…imo


6 posted on 05/28/2025 5:40:37 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: george76

Animals.


7 posted on 05/28/2025 5:49:16 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: george76

Let them starve.

L


8 posted on 05/28/2025 5:50:33 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: george76

Animals!


9 posted on 05/28/2025 5:50:50 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: george76

“ stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Palestinians overran a distribution site”
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“desperate Palestinians”? Some, perhaps, but most were likely “entrepreneurs” looking to grab what they could to sell. Just sayin’.


10 posted on 05/28/2025 6:10:03 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: george76

We should air drop food supplies to the people in Gaza. Perhaps pork bits and grease in glass bottles. No parachutes, but lots of glass bottles. At least until they release all the Israeli hostages.


11 posted on 05/28/2025 6:18:11 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: george76

<< France, Britain, and Germany have said they may take action if the military campaign is not halted. >>

What sort of action? Sending Brigitte Macron to kick Bibi’s tuchus?


12 posted on 05/28/2025 6:22:09 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: george76

Let me show you my shocked face.


13 posted on 05/28/2025 6:22:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76
Gee, terrorist loot their "own people"?

I am SO shocked.

14 posted on 05/28/2025 6:29:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: gildafarrell; All

No one has oney so food is currency


15 posted on 05/29/2025 2:16:46 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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Gaza is awash with piles of cash, actually.


16 posted on 05/29/2025 4:35:41 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Does they guy in the street have cash?


17 posted on 05/29/2025 4:43:44 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: george76

Well as usual hamas will shoot any palestinian who is not already starving .....


18 posted on 05/29/2025 9:08:28 AM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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