> However, the Pentagon is unable to say how much, if any, of that aid has actually reached the organizations that are supposed to distribute it… <
Oh, come on now. How tough can it be to find that out? We must be in contact with those organizations. Why not just ask them.
Oh, wait. Maybe we did ask, and were told all of the aid is being stolen. Can’t be announcing that! Better to say we just don’t know.
This whole country has turned into one big Three Stooges routine, except that the Stooges never had bad intentions.
...None of the food and supplies that has entered the Gaza Strip through a U.S.-built temporary pier in its first five days of operation has been distributed to Palestinians by aid organizations, Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon spokesperson, said at a news briefing Tuesday.
Ryder said that 569 metric tons of aid had made it onto Gaza’s shore but that those supplies had yet to be parceled out by humanitarian organizations.
On Saturday, hungry crowds looted several World Food Program trucks transporting aid that had been delivered through the pier, prompting the agency to suspend deliveries of aid arriving at the pier on Sunday and Monday...