UNRWA Suspends Food Shipments In Gaza

That's right folks. You read that correctly. UNRWA has suspended aid shipments to Gaza because Hamas has been stealing the humanitarian aid.

The seizure of the 200 tons of supplies took place Thursday night and in response, UNRWA officials informed the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration that it was suspending its deliveries to the Gaza Strip until further notice. The supplies confiscated included flour and other basic commodities.

The transfer of 40 truckloads of humanitarian supplies - some 800 tons - planned for Sunday has already been canceled.

It was the second time this week that Hamas stole UN supplies transferred to the Gaza Strip for impoverished Palestinians.

The first incident took place Tuesday evening when armed Hamas police broke into a Gaza warehouse packed with UN humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food packages.

This isn't the first time this has happened; it's the first time this month and it's the first time that UNRWA has suspended its shipments.

Hamas will use this to further its agitprop campaign, but the fact is that Hamas steals any and all aid entering Gaza and resells it to support its terror operations and infrastructure. It has its hands in the smuggling tunnel operations, where it not only gets a piece of the action from all manner of products entering from Egypt, but allows it to bring in its weapons and materials for making rockets and mortars.

Israellycool and Muqata have more, including that another mortar shell was fired into Israel from Gaza this morning. That's even as the Israelis transferred 175 Million NIS to Gaza today to the Palestinian Authority.

Yet, Turkey is contemplating launching an investigation into war crimes carried out by Israel. The Islamists demand that if Israeli leaders enter Turkey they be detained. No word on when Turkey will investigate proven instances of Hamas war crimes. As it is, the human rights groups admit to not caring about Hamas war crimes because they're so open and obvious it isn't worth their time.

Actually, the real reason they don't focus on Hamas is because they know that Hamas will never ever listen to them and would just as soon as murder those human rights folks who enter Gaza as they would anyone else. The only ones who have any chance of imposing justice on Hamas are the Israelis, and they do a fairly decent job of it when the politicians get out of the way and let the IDF mete out the justice that Hamas so dearly craves.

With Israel, US and other nations, AI and the other human rights groups are able to cajole and pressure those governments into taking actions that appear to protect human rights - but even there, those groups actually undermine human rights by equating terrorist actions with that of legitimate national security and responsibility of sovereign nations to protect their citizens from terrorist attacks from groups that hide behind women and children.

They are reprehensible in their focus and by ignoring the Hamas war crimes, crimes against humanity, and repeated calls to genocide, misogyny, etc. are actually enabling Hamas to propagandize openly and obviously without any criticism from the very groups that should be at the forefront.

The same goes for these so-called paragons of virtue who claim that they will go after Israeli officials for war crimes if they step foot in their countries. Turkey's actions against the PKK comes to mind when I think of hypocrites. It's not like Turkey is raining roses down on PKK camps inside Iraq or inside Turkey. They're attacking them and killing them and civilians in the process. The world yawns at that, but Israel defending itself against barbaric terrorists? That must stop. It's another day in Israeli double standard time.