Palestinian factions in Lebanon accused the army on Saturday of contaminating Iranian food aid destined for a refugee camp by using sniffer-dogs to search the shipment. "Camp residents refuse to eat what the police dogs have soiled," several Palestinian factions in northern Lebanon, including the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said in a statement received by AFP."Oh, yasss! In our religion, animals that can sniff out explosives or dope are very much forbidden! Bad, bad juju, y'know!"
It referred to a shipment donated by Iran for residents of the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which was devastated by deadly battles between a fringe Islamist group and the army in 2007.
A place that was coincidentally home to several tons of unauthorized explosives that nobody could say how they got there...
The Palestinian factions said they could no longer receive the aid and accused the army of delaying its delivery describing this as a "humiliating" act.
"Take your charity and be off wit' yez!"
The leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was among the factions which signed the statement, said that 200 tonnes of aid had arrived outside the camp three days earlier and been held up for "security reasons."