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Translation:

"This clip (from a Gaza-based journalist) was taken today. It shows the reality of the situation here. Armed members of Hamas are seizing aid trucks and confiscating them for their own purposes.

I asked troops in the area why they allowed this to happen, and they told me that due to rising pressure, their instructions are to allow aid trucks to pass without further checks (and it is after this point that Hamas commandeer them).

So this is the situation - we continue to feed, enrich and strengthen Hamas.

This government promised that "not a single seed will fall into Hamas's hands", but clearly the reality is the opposite.

Embarrassing."

How do we know they are not on top to protect the trucks, let's be realistic here, if you send a truck into an area where people are starving, over a vast area, two or three gunmen might seem worth the risk, but with the amount on top of those trucks, you'd recognise instantly you got no chance?
 
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Anyway, about time Trump kicked you out, aint it?

He's working his way down the list... takes a long time to kick out "10's of millions of immigrants". I suspect I have a few years before I'm sent to the El Salvador concentration camps.
 
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How do we know they are not on top to protect the trucks, let's be realistic here, if you send a truck into an area where people are starving, over a vast area, two or three gunmen might seem worth the risk, but with the amount on top of those trucks, you'd recognise instantly you got no chance?

I mistrust anything ... as you know <laugh> ... so it could be Hamas... but the Hamas lot at hostage releases all seem to be well equipped and in pristine uniforms etc ... as the Reuters article points out, the majority of guys on these trucks are carrying sticks ... might be Hamas have run out of arms and ammo ... if so, surely that means there is no longer any credible threat and Israel could completely withdraw ... alternatively, it's not Hamas but rather 'the clans' as the Reuters article suggests?
 
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He's working his way down the list... takes a long time to kick out "10's of millions of immigrants". I suspect I have a few years before I'm sent to the El Salvador concentration camps.

El Salvador sounds an idyllic place and with it's Central America location also beautiful, but something tells me humans have ruined it. Always fancied doing South America taking in some of Central but never happened, maybe in another life.
 
How do we know they are not on top to protect the trucks, let's be realistic here, if you send a truck into an area where people are starving, over a vast area, two or three gunmen might seem worth the risk, but with the amount on top of those trucks, you'd recognise instantly you got no chance?

Brb giving Hamas the benefit of the doubt.

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And up the league you go, go, go.

Greta thanks you.
 
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I'll consider it all more likely if the same story gets verified from sources with non bias ... as it stands, I'm deeply sceptical that so many armed men would expose themselves to Israeli firepower when Israel continues to target hospitals and refugee encampments on the pretext that Hamas refuse to come out into the open to fight ... smells incredibly fishy ... and not just because it has been delayed entry for so long ...

I was also sceptical but what caught my eye was who posted it and what he's saying.

Bennet is Netanyahu's biggest rival. His post is clearly intended as a dig at the government, not Hamas or GHF etc.
 
I mistrust anything ... as you know <laugh> ... so it could be Hamas... but the Hamas lot at hostage releases all seem to be well equipped and in pristine uniforms etc ... as the Reuters article points out, the majority of guys on these trucks are carrying sticks ... might be Hamas have run out of arms and ammo ... if so, surely that means there is no longer any credible threat and Israel could completely withdraw ... alternatively, it's not Hamas but rather 'the clans' as the Reuters article suggests?

We've already seen at some of the food distribution locations all hell break loose, and it's very difficult for the IDF or the UN to control these situations, unless you just start randomly shooting people to bring it under control, then become the scourge of the world. I see it's perfectly feasible for trucks laden with food would have similar problems, unless a very physical and threatening presence is visible.
 
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I mistrust anything ... as you know <laugh> ... so it could be Hamas... but the Hamas lot at hostage releases all seem to be well equipped and in pristine uniforms etc ... as the Reuters article points out, the majority of guys on these trucks are carrying sticks ... might be Hamas have run out of arms and ammo ... if so, surely that means there is no longer any credible threat and Israel could completely withdraw ... alternatively, it's not Hamas but rather 'the clans' as the Reuters article suggests?

There's going to be all sorts of chaos at those distribution sites, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if 'clans' or 'groups' are taking control of certain amounts of aid once it's past the GHF checkpoints. I can only imagine how desperate people are and how with very little oversight, over very little aid, some of it get's 'ring fenced' or siphoned off to be redistributed elsewhere.

Whatever is happening in that video, it doesn't look like an organised Hamas operation and Bennet is leaping to assumptions there.

What is needed, is for this inhumane GHF plan to be ditched and aid distribution handed back to the UN

AND for Israel to lift their abhorrent blockade on full aid entering Gaza.
 
He's working his way down the list... takes a long time to kick out "10's of millions of immigrants". I suspect I have a few years before I'm sent to the El Salvador concentration camps.
Least he's chucking them out.

Our pms smashing the gangs by letting more in daily and housing them in hotels at our expense.

Give me a UK Trump tomorrow
 
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The only way to devalue what the clans do is to flood the (market) Gaza with food. The more food you pump in the cheaper it becomes. That's going to take weeks and months to achieve, but in time things will settle down and the more the glut of products, the more the threat declines. They will then turn their attentions to land grabbing, you know those homes they wanted to return to, but the clans say it's now ours lol.
 
El Salvador sounds an idyllic place and with it's Central America location also beautiful, but something tells me humans have ruined it. Always fancied doing South America taking in some of Central but never happened, maybe in another life.

I'd love to see central America and South America too one day. I'll wait for things to be politically calmer first though!
 
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We've already seen at some of the food distribution locations all hell break loose, and it's very difficult for the IDF or the UN to control these situations, unless you just start randomly shooting people to bring it under control, then become the scourge of the world. I see it's perfectly feasible for trucks laden with food would have similar problems, unless a very physical and threatening presence is visible.

The problems that are arising at these distribution centres are because Israel has both limited the amount of aid coming in, and they have militarised the distribution of aid. It's created a situation where thousands of desperate people are all vying for what little there is and that is only going to cause trouble.

The GHF distribution centres have been described as 'death traps'. Nearly 600 people have been killed by the IDF in a month of these inhumane centres being set up.

I was listening to an Oxfam representative speaking today. They said they have hundreds of trucks of aid waiting in Egypt and Jordan. But the Israeli blockade won't let them in. The Israeli govt need to hand this aid distribution, which is enshrined under UN conventions on human rights in conflict zones, back to the UN and take the military aspect right out of it.
 
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