Yes yes, it’s the UN that’s failing…. oh how far you have fallen.
Since HAMAS has been stealing well over half of it, does it matter if they’re just going to steal it again?
I hope I’m not the only one who read the headline and wondered why Werner Herzog had something to say about this.
Over 100 UN aid workers have died in Gaza.
> Israel repeats assertion that it is checking more humanitarian aid trucks than are entering Strip.
This is such a disingenuous claim on President Herzog’s part. Israel just last week opened two more check points for aid trucks, but only regularly keeps open only one entrance to Gaza (Rafah, in collaboration with Egypt. That crossing, in the sparsely populated Sinai, is served by only one airport and one road, leading to long traffic jams and bottlenecks in distribution. With a ratio of three checking stations to one barely adequate border crossing, massive delays on already checked trucks are inevitable, and that’s without mentioning that the checking stations are in Israel, so trucks must drive down into Egypt and then back up to Gaza to get to their destination.
Some other method besides just Rafah needs to be opened up soon to prevent disease and starvation among an estimated 1.5 million displaced Gazans now living in the South. The temporary permission given to one World Food Program convoy to use Kerem Shalom is a promising sign, but does not mean very much if it does not become a regular thing.
UN, Red Cross, and don’t forget Palestinian leadership
So HAMAS could have stolen 3 times the amount of humanitarian aid?
Real problem is US blocking UN from sending in peacekeepers.
Guy’s gotta cut them some slack. Ordering rocket parts isn’t easy right now.
The failure is the result of Hamas stealing aid to line up their pockets. They don’t care about Gaza given that they started the war with their attack on Oct 7.
They could always eat their shoe.
Well now I’m torn between hating on Hamas or the UN.
Wait no, I hate them both.
The UN Police are accountable to the UN. The UN is accountable to no one essentially.
Why don’t they just airdrop the aid in small pallet size packages? That way the aid is spread over a larger area and there is a higher likelihood that the civilians get to it before Hamas.
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is like a relentless desert wind, swirling through generations, carrying with it the weight of history, sorrow, and a longing for a resolution that seems forever out of reach. The landscape is scarred by narratives, and within these narratives lie the echoes of countless lives caught in an unyielding struggle.
* three times more aid could be seized by Hamas
There’s zero point providing aid if the civilians just give it to Hamas, or keep making believe like the 10/7 attacks were “symmetrical”. They could end this anytime they want if they hand over the Hamas officers.
There was an interview on NPR yesterday talking to someone from UNRWA about this.
His response is a little confusing, but I think it’s basically: vehicle inspections are a major bottleneck, but also the trucks can’t just go where they need to go and unload they have to be unloaded again, and the cargo re-loaded. (It isn’t clear if that’s due to UNRWA policy or it’s a rule the IDF imposed.) It’s also an active war zone and actually getting the trucks to their destination isn’t always straightforward.
>Kelly: I interviewed the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, yesterday and I asked him about aid. He was very critical of the U.N. He essentially blamed the U.N. for the bottleneck in getting aid into Gaza. He says the U.N. could be getting more aid in if you wanted. How do you respond to that?
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>Lazzarini: Well, that’s true. We could have much, much more if Israel would allow more trucks to come in.
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> Today, for example, we had only 46 truck coming from Kerem Shalom and a hundred trucks coming from Rafah. So basically, despite the reopening of the crossing, we do not have overall additional trucks coming into the Gaza Strip. What we need is something much more meaningful because what we are getting today is far from enough to respond to such a crisis.
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>Kelly: I just want to stay on for this for a minute because it’s obviously incredibly frustrating to hear Israel is blaming the U.N. I just heard you say, you know, if Israel would open the crossings and keep them open, we could get more in. How do you break the impasse?
>Lazzarini: Listen, you have many bottlenecks. First of all, you have still ongoing bombardment — roads which have been destroyed, trucks which have been destroyed.
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>When trucks come in, they are not allowed to go to the final destination. They have to download and then you have to re-offload.
If we would let trucks go into the final destination, you can let trucks come in in the hundreds, and this would not be a problem. So the bottleneck is a series of issues related to the conflict but also to administrative procedure.
UN has failed just like the league before it to do anything meaningful to prevent or fix any problems so long as 1 nation can VETO any sort of progress.
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Yes yes, it’s the UN that’s failing…. oh how far you have fallen.
Since HAMAS has been stealing well over half of it, does it matter if they’re just going to steal it again?
I hope I’m not the only one who read the headline and wondered why Werner Herzog had something to say about this.
Over 100 UN aid workers have died in Gaza.
> Israel repeats assertion that it is checking more humanitarian aid trucks than are entering Strip.
This is such a disingenuous claim on President Herzog’s part. Israel just last week opened two more check points for aid trucks, but only regularly keeps open only one entrance to Gaza (Rafah, in collaboration with Egypt. That crossing, in the sparsely populated Sinai, is served by only one airport and one road, leading to long traffic jams and bottlenecks in distribution. With a ratio of three checking stations to one barely adequate border crossing, massive delays on already checked trucks are inevitable, and that’s without mentioning that the checking stations are in Israel, so trucks must drive down into Egypt and then back up to Gaza to get to their destination.
Some other method besides just Rafah needs to be opened up soon to prevent disease and starvation among an estimated 1.5 million displaced Gazans now living in the South. The temporary permission given to one World Food Program convoy to use Kerem Shalom is a promising sign, but does not mean very much if it does not become a regular thing.
If security concerns make an additional land crossing untenable, [Cyprus has proposed a maritime route for aid distribution](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/cyprus-outlines-plan-maritime-corridor-get-aid-gaza-2023-11-09/), a plan Netanyahu has not responded to. There’s also air distribution, which is how Israel is currently keeping its soldiers supplied in North Gaza.
UN, Red Cross, and don’t forget Palestinian leadership
So HAMAS could have stolen 3 times the amount of humanitarian aid?
Real problem is US blocking UN from sending in peacekeepers.
Guy’s gotta cut them some slack. Ordering rocket parts isn’t easy right now.
The failure is the result of Hamas stealing aid to line up their pockets. They don’t care about Gaza given that they started the war with their attack on Oct 7.
They could always eat their shoe.
Well now I’m torn between hating on Hamas or the UN.
Wait no, I hate them both.
The UN Police are accountable to the UN. The UN is accountable to no one essentially.
Why don’t they just airdrop the aid in small pallet size packages? That way the aid is spread over a larger area and there is a higher likelihood that the civilians get to it before Hamas.
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is like a relentless desert wind, swirling through generations, carrying with it the weight of history, sorrow, and a longing for a resolution that seems forever out of reach. The landscape is scarred by narratives, and within these narratives lie the echoes of countless lives caught in an unyielding struggle.
* three times more aid could be seized by Hamas
There’s zero point providing aid if the civilians just give it to Hamas, or keep making believe like the 10/7 attacks were “symmetrical”. They could end this anytime they want if they hand over the Hamas officers.
There was an interview on NPR yesterday talking to someone from UNRWA about this.
His response is a little confusing, but I think it’s basically: vehicle inspections are a major bottleneck, but also the trucks can’t just go where they need to go and unload they have to be unloaded again, and the cargo re-loaded. (It isn’t clear if that’s due to UNRWA policy or it’s a rule the IDF imposed.) It’s also an active war zone and actually getting the trucks to their destination isn’t always straightforward.
[https://www.npr.org/2023/12/21/1220929207/gaza-palestinians-israel-war-united-nations](https://www.npr.org/2023/12/21/1220929207/gaza-palestinians-israel-war-united-nations)
>Kelly: I interviewed the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, yesterday and I asked him about aid. He was very critical of the U.N. He essentially blamed the U.N. for the bottleneck in getting aid into Gaza. He says the U.N. could be getting more aid in if you wanted. How do you respond to that?
>
>Lazzarini: Well, that’s true. We could have much, much more if Israel would allow more trucks to come in.
>
> Today, for example, we had only 46 truck coming from Kerem Shalom and a hundred trucks coming from Rafah. So basically, despite the reopening of the crossing, we do not have overall additional trucks coming into the Gaza Strip. What we need is something much more meaningful because what we are getting today is far from enough to respond to such a crisis.
>
>Kelly: I just want to stay on for this for a minute because it’s obviously incredibly frustrating to hear Israel is blaming the U.N. I just heard you say, you know, if Israel would open the crossings and keep them open, we could get more in. How do you break the impasse?
>Lazzarini: Listen, you have many bottlenecks. First of all, you have still ongoing bombardment — roads which have been destroyed, trucks which have been destroyed.
>
>When trucks come in, they are not allowed to go to the final destination. They have to download and then you have to re-offload.
If we would let trucks go into the final destination, you can let trucks come in in the hundreds, and this would not be a problem. So the bottleneck is a series of issues related to the conflict but also to administrative procedure.
UN has failed just like the league before it to do anything meaningful to prevent or fix any problems so long as 1 nation can VETO any sort of progress.