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| U.N. Suspends Aid Deliveries to Gaza Strip |
| 2009-01-09 |
| The United Nations on Thursday said it was indefinitely suspending all humanitarian aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip, citing a series of Israeli attacks on U.N. facilities and personnel during the 13-day Israeli offensive. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 The UN is providing aid and comfort to their enemy. Get the UN outta there and keep 'em out. Unfortunately, the UN has been the enemy of Israel since at least the 1956 war. They're not giving "aid and comfort" - they're actively supporting and enabling HAMASS and all the other anti-Israel forces. The UN is part of the problem - not only here, but in dozens of other places around the world. Time for it to die. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-09 12:48 |
| #5 IDF has to be happy about this. The UN is providing aid and comfort to their enemy. Get the UN outta there and keep 'em out. This is war, damn it. If you're gonna fight a war then fight it to win and don't let the bleeding hearts get in your way. It's better for everybody to get this thing over with in the shortest time possible. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-09 11:40 |
| #4 Uncertainty shrouds UN driver's death Who killed the Palestinian driver of an aid truck and wounded two others as their convoy made its way into the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing during Thursday's "humanitarian cease-fire?" According to the foreign media, who based their information on UN sources, IDF tank shells blasted the truck. According to the Magen David Adom medic who claimed to have taken the Palestinians to an Israeli hospital, the truck actually came under Hamas sniper fire. The medic, who asked not to be named, said he got his information from soldiers in the field, but by press time - some eight hours after the incident - the IDF Spokesman's Office was still unable to provide a response or to establish contact with the relevant sources in the field. Adding to the confusion, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it had evacuated the victims, but the MDA medic said soldiers told him they had gone in, at great personal risk, to evacuate the wounded Palestinians. UN officials in New York placed the blame squarely on Israel, not just for the Erez incident, but also for a separate episode in which a marked UN ambulance convoy sent to retrieve the body of an UNRWA worker killed by an air strike came under small arms fire near Beit Hanun on Thursday afternoon. No one was injured in that incident. John Ging, the director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, said via video link that "the verbal assurances have run out in terms of credibility. We cannot rely on firm commitments given from the Israeli side," Ging told reporters. "To have Israeli forces on the ground firing at and now hitting convoys that have been specifically cleared - this is real-time clearance?" Ging acknowledged, however, that he could not be absolutely certain that the attacks came from IDF forces, telling a reporter who asked whether other combatants may have been responsible, "There is a conflict going on." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-09 09:57 |
| #3 Read an article today which claimed that UNRWA headquarters is *located* in Gaza. Why did I not know this? When UNRWA officials complain about the Gaza war, it's important to understand that they, themselves, are under siege. In short, Hamas isn't a government. UNRWA is the de facto government of Gaza. Hamas is, effectively, the "militant wing" of UNRWA, the same way that the IRA used to be the militant arm of Sinn Fein. I don't think I understood Gaza until today. I was under the impression that UNRWA was essentially a neocolonialist organization. That's partially true, but what I failed to understand is that successful colonial apparatuses are primarily local in character - the Raj was largely staffed by Indians, and Cortes' army was 90% native. In other words, UNRWA isn't neocolonial - it's plain old 18th-century vanilla colonial. Except they've recruited the local Fists of Righteous Harmony to do their dirty work for them. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-01-09 09:19 |
| #2 selling for profits sorry |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-01-09 09:07 |
| #1 oh sure , what about hamas stealing the supplies and selling them for pirates and and using their ambulances for troop transports? but their is a silver lining too this, it makes gaza an even mpre hellhole for the shitheads |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-01-09 09:06 |