By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 15:36:27 | Updated at 2024-11-24 04:10:29
4 days ago
Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’
CNN ^ | November 19, 2024 | Pauline Lockwood, Hira Humayun & Ibrahim Dahman
Posted on 11/19/2024 7:30:43 AM PST by Twotone
Nearly a hundred aid trucks were looted in southern Gaza on Saturday in what UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described as “one of the worst” incidents of its kind.
Of the 109 trucks carrying food supplies for UNRWA and the World Food Programme from the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, 97 trucks were “lost” in the looting, UNRWA told CNN in a statement Monday.
Drivers were forced to unload trucks at gun point, aid workers were injured, and vehicles were damaged extensively, it said.
UNRWA did not identify the perpetrators of the looting, but blamed the “collapse of law and order” and the “approach of the Israeli authorities” for creating a “perilous environment.”
It said the challenges involved in delivering aid to Gaza had become “increasingly insurmountable,” with “trucks frequently delayed at various holding points, often looted, and subjected to escalating attacks.”
“Well, we have been warning for a long time about the total breakdown of civil order; (until) four or five months ago, we still had local capacity, people who were escorting the convoys. This has completely gone,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told a press conference in Geneva on Monday.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; gaza; looted; unrwa
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1 posted on 11/19/2024 7:30:43 AM PST by Twotone
To: Twotone
Fine, don’t send any more convoys. Problem solved.
2 posted on 11/19/2024 7:31:33 AM PST by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
To: Twotone
Why aren’t all these Arabs in Cairo? They could have walked there by now.
3 posted on 11/19/2024 7:33:04 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Twotone
Law and order is “acting white,” isn’t it?
De-fund the police, right?
4 posted on 11/19/2024 7:33:21 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Twotone
5 posted on 11/19/2024 7:34:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: Twotone
6 posted on 11/19/2024 7:36:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Twotone
If the UN is so observant and caring, why doesn’t Tony Guterres put on one of his baby blue helmets, jump in a Jeep and lead his boyz up to Gaza to stop all the looting and bring some “law and order” to that craphole?
7 posted on 11/19/2024 7:36:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))
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