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(144,258 posts) Sun Dec 1, 2024, 12:26 PM Dec 1

UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous [View all]

Source: NPR/AP

December 1, 2024 6:14 AM ET

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted recent convoys.

The decision could worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the cold, rainy winter sets in, with hundreds of thousands of people living in squalid tent camps and reliant on international food aid. Experts were already warning of famine in the territory's north, which Israeli forces have almost completely isolated since early October.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza, said the route leading to the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel is too dangerous on the Gaza side.

Armed men looted nearly 100 trucks traveling on the route in mid-November, and he said gangs stole a smaller shipment on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/01/g-s1-36297/un-says-it-is-halting-aid-through-main-gaza-crossing-because-route-is-too-dangerous

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UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 1 OP

Failure of the IDF to provide security moniss Dec 1 #1

Right. It's IDF's fault that Hamas is stealing from its own people. SunSeeker Dec 1 #2

IDF is the occupying force in control in Gaza and as such has moniss Dec 1 #4

Not in a war zone where armed opposition is active. Beastly Boy Dec 6 #11

International law and convention moniss Dec 7 #14

Please cite the referred to requests at the UN and the international law verbatim. Beastly Boy Dec 7 #16

Earlier this year there was an incident where the IDF DID provide security NickB79 Dec 1 #3

I don't think we know all of the details of that incident moniss Dec 1 #5

They were armed. And it is not an opinion. Beastly Boy Dec 7 #17

Maybe they should, you know, not be there... DrFunkenstein Dec 1 #6

You mean Hamas, who controls Gaza? maxsolomon Dec 2 #8

Thought you'd want to know that the IDF version of the Flour Massacre has been cast into doubt, shall we say. AloeVera Dec 6 #9

Other than "cast doubt" on the available evidence, Beastly Boy Dec 6 #12

So CNN is biased against Israel and the IDF is honest and true. AloeVera Dec 7 #13

No, this is according to YOU. Beastly Boy Dec 7 #15

Whose failure? Beastly Boy Dec 6 #10

So bring it in through a different crossing? maxsolomon Dec 2 #7