It seems they’re having a bit of trouble
None of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
Several desperate Gazans intercepted trucks delivering aid from the pier over the weekend, leading the UN to suspend the delivery operations until the logistical challenges are resolved.
The US is working with Israel and the United Nations to establish “alternative routes” for the safe delivery of the 569 tons of aid transported to Gaza since last week, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.
Asked whether any of the aid has been delivered to the people of Gaza, Ryder said, “As of today, I do not believe so.” He added that aid had been held in an assembly area on shore, but as of Tuesday had begun getting moved to warehouses for distribution throughout Gaza as alternative routes have been established.
Sitting in warehouses, eh?
Reuters is reporting that most of the aid coming into Gaza from the U.S. military's pier since Saturday was stolen by Palestinians as it made its journey to the UN's warehouse in nearby Deir El Balah.
* 11 trucks out of 16 trucks were cleaned out on Saturday
* No deliveries on…— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) May 20, 2024
By Palestinians, that’s Hamas. Who then mostly hordes the aid, so, it mostly doesn’t make it to those starving Gazans.
(Cleveland Jewish News) According to Israeli estimates, Hamas has been stealing up to 60% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip, and a Channel 12 report last week revealed that the terrorist organization has made at least $500 million in profit off humanitarian aid since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
Huh.
Reuters also reported that “food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed.”
Israel took operational control of the crossing weeks ago, but Cairo so far has refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities to facilitate the entry of aid through Rafah. The Israeli government wants to allow aid into Gaza through the crossing but is unable to do so without Egyptian cooperation.
What do the Egyptians know about the Palestinians?
Hamas has made 500 million ?
Does that mean that the Israeli invasion is continuing to fail and Hamas is growing even stronger ?
Israel must be so proud of what they have done.
Spain, Ireland, and Norway have now officially recognized Palestine as a state.
Is Mr Teach going to begin with his “this is Jew hate” ?
Johnny-where’s the “state” of Palestine?
Really, who can know whether Hamas or larger crowds of desperate civilians have stolen most of the supplies? There has been, and almost certainly never will be, any accounting for anything, at least not from the distribution end.
But this raises the interesting question: did we air-drop food and supplies to German or Japanese civilians before the surrenders? Yes, we led huge rebuilding efforts in Europe and in Japan, but that was after the countries had surrendered and been occupied. Feeding the civilians before the surrenders, at least in unoccupied areas, would have been seen as aiding the enemies!
“Several desperate Gazans” = Hamas
“the broader Palestinian population” = Hamas
“the people of Gaza” = Hamas
“UNWRA” = Hamas.
This is what happens when your foreign policy is geared to show you are “doing something” ahead of an election instead of actually doing something.
In other news about the inept Biden administration, the radio station announced yesterday that the Biden administration was releasing gasoline from the NorthEastern stockpile in order to lower gasoline prices. That stockpile of gasoline was created to offset the risk of gasoline shortages like what happened after Hurricane Sandy. Evidently, the Biden administration is more concerned with looking like “Doing something” about the expected rise in gasoline prices this Summer (because it happens every Summer), so they are totally ignoring the risk of hurricanes this year and depleting the emergency stockpile to achieve a temporary political gain, and that likely will make no noticeable difference in prices at the pump. The Inept Biden Administration, being actually run by some unelected person who is not Biden, is having trouble convincing voters that paying more than $1/gallon extra since the Trump administration is a good thing and a sign that the economy is doing great and we should all be happy about it.
My own opinion is that the higher gasoline prices are a permanent feature going forward. They are not created by the Inept Biden Administration’s “war on Fossil fuels” but are the result of inflation (created by the Inept Biden Administration) on fuel prices as well as the prices of everything else. Thus, even if Trump wins the election, prices are still not going down. That’s OK. It’s not like many people use gasoline anyway.
Saudi Arabia, who control OPEC+ controls the price of crude oil.
OPEC has 1,300,000,000,000 bbl of proven reserves. The US has 48,000,000,000 of world reserves.
Under President Biden, the US has taken the lead in crude oil production, but we have under 10 years proven reserves at this rate of production. Drill, baby, drill!!
Venezuela has the greatest reserves, even more than Saudi Arabia, but extracts little (they are horseshit, politically).
At the current consumption rate the proven oil reserves will last another 50-70 years. Although the rate of increase in oil consumption is slowing, it is still increasing.
Contrary to the “general inflation” “theory” of gasoline prices, 90% of gas price increases reflect an increase in crude prices. Think about it… although inflation is inexorably positive, gas prices can bounce up and down depending on crude prices. Reich?
Another C&P without attribution from Karen (aka Rimjob).
Another day ending with -y.
Ain’t she smarter than everyone else?
US sea route for Gaza aid isn’t working, say Pentagon and UN