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UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city
Associated Press ^ | May 21, 2024 | Tia Goldenberg, Samy Magdy and Lee Keath

Posted on 05/21/2024 12:16:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The United Nations said Tuesday it suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the U.S. for sea deliveries.

The U.N. has not specified how many people have stayed in Rafah since the Israeli military began its intensified assault there two weeks ago, but apparently several hundred thousand people remain. The World Food Program said it was also running out of food for central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Rafah have sought shelter in a chaotic exodus, setting up new tent camps or crowding into areas already devastated by previous Israeli offensives.

Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the U.N’s World Food Program, warned that “humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse.” If food and other supplies don’t resume entering Gaza “in massive quantities, famine-like conditions will spread,” she said. …

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TOPICS: Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: birthcontrol; rafah; rop; un; untiednations
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Stop stealing the food, UN.
1 posted on 05/21/2024 12:16:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that’s a good reason.................


2 posted on 05/21/2024 12:19:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Olog-hai

Gaza, the world’s biggest FAFO. By a country mile.


3 posted on 05/21/2024 12:20:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s a shame.


4 posted on 05/21/2024 12:21:57 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Olog-hai

Woody Allen solved that in Bananas. Coffee and a carry out order delivered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On7U-x_s_EE


5 posted on 05/21/2024 12:22:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>>. Gaza, the world’s biggest FAFO
🤣 ^^^^^^^ THAT ^^^^^^^ 😂


6 posted on 05/21/2024 12:23:48 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Never mind the UN itself, along with their WFP and UNRWA/Hamas-enablers, the world’s biggest thieves/pirates.


7 posted on 05/21/2024 12:23:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Exactly. Plus their Human Rights group run by the biggest violators of human rights in the world and their blue helmets raping and pillaging.


8 posted on 05/21/2024 12:29:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Olog-hai

Not one Muslim state is helping....or will take these scummy Palestinians


9 posted on 05/21/2024 12:31:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Okay, we smuggled in enough weapon resupply!” - UN


10 posted on 05/21/2024 12:31:41 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Olog-hai

https://www.jns.org/nearly-70-of-gaza-aid-from-us-built-pier-stolen/


11 posted on 05/21/2024 12:36:34 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Not one Muslim state is helping....or will take these scummy Palestinians

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And Biden wants them here.


12 posted on 05/21/2024 12:38:38 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Olog-hai

if hamas was willing, they could share all the food and medical supplies they’ve been stealing for years and hoarding in their tunnels.

No doubt that would be enough for any *civilians*.


13 posted on 05/21/2024 12:39:43 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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It’s the UN, SCUMBAGS of all sorts. It probably is just a ruse for JoeK Bimentia to put more heat on BiBi to capitulate because “Think of the Children”


14 posted on 05/21/2024 12:46:57 PM PDT by DAC21
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15 posted on 05/21/2024 12:47:20 PM PDT by SJackson (There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them Churchill)
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https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/egypt/egypts-stronghold-on-rafah-crossing-and-hamas-attacks-starve-millions-of-gazans-as-un-points-finger-at-israel/2024/05/21/

...As of May 17, the Rafah crossing remains inaccessible for humanitarian cargo, fuel and personnel movement,” she told the UNSC. “Around 82,000 metric tons of supplies are stranded on the Egypt side of the crossing with food spoiling and medicines expiring. Fuel shortages, meanwhile, impact the functioning of bakeries, hospitals, water wells, and other critical infrastructure.”...


16 posted on 05/21/2024 12:52:37 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: SJackson

UNRWA skimmed a bit too much. Oops.


17 posted on 05/21/2024 1:01:12 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Olog-hai

There are reports that almost 1 million people, out of 1.2 million, have already left Rafah over the last two weeks - heeding Israeli military warnings (leaflets, texts, phone calls) that they were going into the city.

Rafah crossing is controlled by the IDF now, though they said they would continue bringing in supplies I wonder if someone on the other side is holding it up - or if it has been scaled down because of the floating pier.

The floating pier is fully operational. Seems some people in the Biden Administration are either incompetent (very likely) or are deliberately not working fast enough to bring aid in, perhaps because of Biden’s admonitions against Israel from going into Rafah. If so, it is foolish. You have the perfect set-up to bring in food, medicine and shelter for the evacuees and you fail to deliver... why? Because you want to punish Israel for going into Rafah? Makes no sense but little this administration does.


18 posted on 05/21/2024 1:06:37 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

I always presume sabotage instead of incompetence when it comes to the Biden regime.


19 posted on 05/21/2024 1:42:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

You could be right. Half of them are incompetent and the other half are cruel. Sometimes you can tell which is which, sometimes not. Maybe some of them are both.


20 posted on 05/21/2024 2:12:11 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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