"Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as 'bait'. "

[moniss]

This is the headline from an article on the official site of the UN dated 05/09/25. It sheds light on the nearly detail free reporting by western media about the supposed "aid proposal" by the US which has been blessed by the radical right Israeli government. One of the details is noted in the statement by UNICEF chief James Elder:

"UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder insisted that the Israeli proposal to create a handful of aid hubs exclusively in the south of the Strip would create an “impossible choice between displacement and death”."

So the proposal in fact would not bring aid distribution to the north but would require everyone to move south. Once the north was vacated it is doubtful anybody would be allowed to return. Elder further makes what should be a clearly understood statement about humanitarian aid:

“It’s dangerous to ask civilians to go into militarized zones to collect rations…humanitarian aid should never be used as a bargaining chip”."

Yes indeed but we have witnessed an impotent world response to humanitarian aid being precisely and blatantly used over and over as a bargaining chip. Despite the claims about aid being diverted by Hamas the UN article notes this:

"Rebutting Israeli allegations that aid reaching Gaza has been diverted by militant groups, both Ms. Touma and UN World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris described “end-to-end” systems put in place to counter this risk.

“Our supplies are reaching the health facilities they’re meant to serve,” said Dr. Harris, adding that the UN health agency had not witnessed any aid diversion within the health care system.

“It is not about failure of aid delivery within Gaza. It is about not being allowed to bring it in,” Dr. Harris concluded."

One of perhaps the most controversial details of the US/Israeli proposal that has been absent from most media is this:

"In a further note of caution about the Israeli plan, UNICEF’s Mr. Elder insisted that the proposed use of facial recognition as a precondition to access aid ran against all humanitarian principles to “screen and monitor beneficiaries for intelligence and military purposes”."

So everyone would be "scanned" and put into a database or you don't get water, food or medicine. The aid stations would quickly become "arrest points" using a deeply flawed technology to make comparisons even though that couldn't possibly reflect or predict the facial changes the Gazans have undergone after this many months of starvation, stress and injuries.

During the ceasefire the aid flow did improve the nutrition of children but now the article notes:

"Fast forward to today and food, water, medicines - “everything for a child to survive” - is being blocked, Mr. Elder said — “and in many ways, boastfully blocked”."

The article goes on to note the current conditions even further:

"In an update on Thursday, OCHA said that more than 80 community kitchens have been forced to shut since late April, owing to the lack of supplies. This number is rising “by the day”, fuelling “widespread” hunger in Gaza, the UN aid coordination office said."

Meanwhile food, water and medicine are just a short distance away and have been waiting for months with UNRWA noting they have over 3,000 aid trucks waiting outside the border that have been stuck there now for months and the Communications director is quoted in the article:

"Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, deplored the fact that such a “big dollar figure” was going to waste, when the food could be reaching hungry children and when medicine could be used to treat people with chronic diseases.

“The clock is ticking. The gates must reopen, the siege must be lifted as soon as possible,” she insisted, while calling for the release of Israeli hostages and a return to a standard flow of humanitarian supplies.

Inside Gaza, aid teams warn that the situation is desperate. “Even those [food] lines are now gone because food is running out,” said UNRWA’s Ms. Touma."

But even if the highly questionable US/Israeli plan were implemented it would be a drop of water to a dying population because the number of trucks allowed in per day would be a trickle compared to what came in during the ceasefire:

"The Israeli aid distribution blueprint presented to UN humanitarians envisages only 60 aid trucks per day entering Gaza - “one-tenth of what was being delivered during the ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas which held from 19 January to 18 March.

“It's not nearly enough to meet the needs of 1.1 million children, 2.1 million people,” Mr. Elder insisted. “There is a simple alternative: lift the blockade, let humanitarian aid in, save lives.”

So this is the equivalent of promising people dying of thirst that they can have a dampened rag to chew on. All while accomplishing more displacement of people, expanding the normalization of the barbaric tactic of using access to humanitarian aid as a weapon and what appears to be the authoritarian move of implementing a system of using facial recognition of a population in order to monitor them and decide who can receive food, water and medicine.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163071?_gl=1

[Mosby]

1. Video of Hamas stealing aid and shooting at civilians.

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But sure, the aid locations are clearly some dastardly plan by the Zionists to steal land and ethnically cleanse Arabs from Gaza. Give me a break.

[moniss]

4. You can be assured

that Hamas, as despicable as they are, has killed fewer Palestinians and cut far fewer of them from aid than the radical right wing government of Israel and the IDF. I know it troubles some people when someone reports an article from the UN and points out concerns the UN brings to light. But they shouldn't be troubled at all because the UN isn't going to do anything to interfere with conduct of the Israeli government in Gaza, Lebanon or Syria. Neither will the rest of the world. Not because of agreement with it all but rather out of their own greed, fear of Israeli government retaliation and their own lack of a moral spine.

It's easy sometimes for people to miss the overall point of an article that is raised. Put simply it is a BS plan and the details of aid being a trickle, only locating the aid in the south and of using facial recognition to screen people are the overall points. I really don't care if it troubles anybody that someone points it out and my feeling, and reason for the post, is that these 3 major points I highlighted are under reported and I feel nobody should be comfortable with any of these aspects but it is possible that some people like this.

[Lovie777]

2. Palestinians got it from all sides.....

including shithole’s administration. shithole musk republicans want them out of Gaza any means necessary. US to send humanitarian aid coupled with armed militias does not fare well for the Palestinians.

Plus shithole and comrade's are going to the riches part of the Middle East for something sinister.

[moniss]

5. It is the same old story ever since

oil was discovered. The big powers using factional divisions throughout the Middle East for their own goals. We can be sure that the British and French along with Russia and China are all working behind the scenes plotting how to thwart this effort or that or shore up this or that faction using weapons, money and promises just like they have done for over 100 years.

The way Israel is keeping Syrian factions at each other is an example. The British did it by using the Druze after WW1 when the French were trying to get Syria to become a stronger state under the French Mandate while the British Mandate in Palestine and Trans-Jordan was going on. The weaker the British could make the French effort the more it helped them with their efforts in Palestine. The tale of the oil pipeline during the 1920's is a classic example of how every bit of every action taken by the British, French, US and others had absolutely zero consideration for how it would effect the actual people of the region for which they were supposed to be responsible and in fact was simply about their own strategic and financial interests.

So when Crumb The First is playing kissy-face in the region it is just more of the same of course.

[lapucelle]

3. People knew what would happen if Trump were elected. They didn't care. N/T

[sabbat hunter]

6. There are a lot of

people who voted for Cantaloupe Caligula that are members of the Leopards Eating Faces party, and are shocked that the leopards are eating their faces.