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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

What's this? I thought there was a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip (there isn't, and never was), yet...get this...Hamas is setting conditions before they will accept the material seized from the ships from the Israelis: Hamas raises conditions to get aid through Israel

Hamas authorities on Tuesday refused to receive aid and supplies to the Gaza Strip through Israel, stressing that Israel must first free pro-Palestinian campaigners who were onboard an aid flotilla.

Israel can send aid that Gaza flotilla had carried to the coastal enclave "only if the shipments are complete and when Israel release all activists who were onboard the ships, Ziad Al- Zaza, Hamas' Minister of Economy, told Xinhua.

"The priority is to release the detained activists," Al-Zaza added...

...Today, Israel allowed part of the aid, which originally included construction materials and medical supplies, to Gaza through one of its land crossing points, but Hamas refused to let that shipment in, witnesses told Xinhua...

Also at YNet: 'Hamas blocking delivery of aid'

...According to the security sources, despite Hamas' objection, the unloading of the goods at Ashdod Port continues. Port workers and Defense Ministry elements have been working to unload the cargo since the ships docked on Monday, and Tuesday night, eight trucks containing medical equipment, toys, clothing and medicine arrived at the Kerem Shalom crossing.

The cargo was unloaded at the crossing, but has yet to be transferred to the Palestinian side. The Israel Defense Forces, the Defense Ministry, and government sources will continue with their attempts to coordinate the transfer of the goods into Gaza.

A COGAT statement said, "We will continue to work to coordinate the transfer of the humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip, in coordination with the international community and the Palestinian Authority, as was declared before the flotilla arrived."...

...Colonel Moshe Levy, head of the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Office, said that "there was no need for this cargo. The same goods have been sent into Gaza over the past year on a regular basis. There were more than 100 electric scooters, and tons of medical equipment. This proves that the entire sail was propagandist and provocative and had nothing to do with aid."

Of course, the idea that there is a humanitarian disaster in Gaza, including mass starvation, is a ridiculous lie, as this latest piece of evidence, a Danish report quoted at Elder of Ziyon, makes clear:

...I will not say whether, in better times has been a larger product range than there was yesterday. But there was certainly no shortage of vegetables, fruits or any other ordinary, basic foods. Tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, watermelons, potatoes - mountains of these items in the many stalls.

I must admit I was a little surprised. Because when I call down here to my Palestinian friends, they tell me about all the problems and deficiencies, so I expected that the crisis was a little more clear.

And the first woman we interviewed in the market confirms this strange, contradictory, negative mindset:

"We have nothing," she said. We need everything! Food, drinks ... everything!"

It disturbed her not at least that she stood between the mountains of vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry and fish, while she spun this doomsday scenario.

Yousuf al-Assad Yazgy owns a fruit and vegetable outlet here in the market. All his fruit is imported from Israel...

5 Comments

Isn't Israel deporting all of the flotilla participants? If so, this 'condition' should not result in much real delay.

Some of them are fighting extradition. The delay isn't really the issue, though. The idea is that Hamas should be delaying anything at all for any reason. Why? More political games while there's a supposed crisis among their own people? It's the bigger questions at issue.

The faithful are forbidden from touching anything contaminated with Jewish cooties.
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

Oh, let us hope and pray there's no delay in getting those much needed supplies to everybody's poor pathetic pets the palestinians. Tool, I think you've missed the point.

I think any supplies which are turned away by these Hamas terrorists... should immediately be moved to support new settlement building in Jerusalem.

Let them stick that in their pipes and smoke it.

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