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Outrage over tripling energy bills in deep blue state threatens to end reign of Dem officials defending hike
Friday 08/15/2025

Jean_harlow_1019
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN says 13,000 children treated for
malnutrition in Gaza in July as aid trickles in
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Autopsy of slain hostage Itzik Elgarat
revealed he was tortured to death, brother says
Home Front: Politix
Ever more Corbynization: North Carolina Democrat spurns AIPAC, in latest sign of party's distancing from Israel
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Iran hacked former justice
minister Shaked's phone during 12-day June war
Home Front: WoT
Massachusetts man sentenced to 26
months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Smotrich to okay 3,000 homes in E1 settlement
area: 'Buries idea of Palestinian state'
PPI for July - Big Increase w some oddities

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 15:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  German arms maker shifts production to US to sidestep Israel embargo
Renk, a leading German defense firm, will move production of tank gearboxes for Israel to the US after Chancellor Merz halted arms shipments over Gaza war, a move that drew backlash from within his own party
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/15/2025 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Jean Harlow. I appreciate her taste in dogs.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/15/2025 5:53 Comments || Top||

#3  She has a fine pair.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/15/2025 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice pair of puppies
Posted by: Hupique Sinatra7866 || 08/15/2025 12:41 Comments || Top||


--Tech & Moderator Notes
The Big Day has finally arrived. rantburg.com moves to its new digs
The Big Day has finally arrived. rantburg.com moves to its new, permanent home. It all begins at 12:00 (noon) EDT.

What changes?

rantburg.com is moving to a new server at 12:00 EDT, which should be much more stable and on a better network.

Most issues causing the server/service to go down will be much fewer and of far less duration.

rantburg.com will reside on a much more advanced version of the php scripting language, as well as a much more advanced version of postgresql.

What to expect:

At 12:00 EDT the original server (rantburg.com) will redirect to newrantburg.1dogstar.net. Any posts, or comments on either the old server (rantburg.com) or the new one (newrantburg.1dogstar.net) will be overwritten when the final database is installed.

Also at 12:00 EDT, Fred will point the rantburg.com name to the new server. It will take between 30 minutes, and to up to 72 hours for the change to go into effect. During this time, service under the rantburg.com name will be spotty at best, as the name is updated throughout the domain name system.

During this time, newrantburg.1dogstar.net will be available to be used the same as the rantburg.com name.

At 12:15 EDT, newrantburg.1dogstar.net will shut down for approximately 15 minutes as the final database is moved into place. Any posts, comments, etc made between 12:00 EDT and 12:30 EDT at either the old server, or the new server will be overwritten. Once the server is back live, you can continue your normal activity.

How to report problems in the initial changeover?

There are several.

The best way is on this thread.

The best way in case of outage is at the O-Club. Yes, it is chock full of spam, but I will see your message there, because I will be checking frequently.

Rantburg's discord: https://discord.gg/gDzN4S32

My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/chris.covert.1441
My Facebook page is public . You can leave a post, or a private message.

Email: gmail.com account: grurkka

X: @badanov

What else?

Fred retains his emeritus status.

Fred retains ownership of the rantburg.com name.

Fred will continue to post, write in-lines, write, and do some coding in the background.

Trailing Wife will continue her work as Chief Moderator.

FrankG, Skidmark, badanov, and 3dc, as far as I know, will continue as moderators.

badanov will become the Main Coal Shoveler.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 06:39 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [298 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a harbinger of success...

Stray cosmic rays at a low today.

Oulu Neutron Counts
Percentages of the Space Age average:
today: -6.0% Very Low
48-hr change: +0.0%
Max: +11.7% Very High (12/2009)
Min: -32.1% Very Low (06/1991)

Updated 15 Aug 2025 @ 0700 UT
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  If you're "Badanov" does that make TW "Natasha"?
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/15/2025 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Since Mendiola Joe departed, it's hard to tell who the Squirrel is given the multiple pretenders to the title.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/15/2025 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  TW "Natasha"

Natasha Kerensky... aka the Black Widow.

So when is the Rantburg house warming party?
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/15/2025 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Waiting for the rantburg.com name to changeover...
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Could I have lost my cookie because of the move or did I lose it for some other reason?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/15/2025 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Hmmm. The "Rambler" nym also disappeared for me.
Posted by: Rambler || 08/15/2025 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  You'll have to re-establish your nym.

Can't be helped.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  It's ...Alive! Congratulations.
Posted by: magpie || 08/15/2025 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Arrivĕ!
Posted by: technochitlin || 08/15/2025 14:38 Comments || Top||

#11  test
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2025 14:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Apparently the move was easier than many commercial changes/mergers. Congratulations!
Posted by: Bobby || 08/15/2025 15:01 Comments || Top||

#13  rantburg.com name now may be used.

The SSL certificate is temporary, until I can talk the certificate seller into validating with an email.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 16:04 Comments || Top||

#14  Clean, and fast.
Thank you.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 16:11 Comments || Top||

#15  Our network interface currently is being hammered by the Chinese, but I will wait until after midnight to start the firewall.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 17:12 Comments || Top||

#16  Pretty smooth.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 18:57 Comments || Top||

#17  Nice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/15/2025 20:03 Comments || Top||

#18  Testing, testing....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/15/2025 23:38 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
14-year-old girl kidnapped in Kansas by an illegal alien from Guatemala, rescued in Arizona, child sex predator arrested
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [136 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 

The problem was he was taken alive.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/15/2025 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Arizona Court Releases Migrant Arrested for Kidnapping Kansas Teen
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Curious that an illegal immigrant would be able to post that bond. Also, is Arizona not turning him over to ICE because they want him prosecuted? Or because they don't want him deported?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/15/2025 13:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Hopefully ICE has someone who can track an ankle monitor.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 08/15/2025 15:08 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Newly released bodycam footage shows Reem M. Al Dhahiry being arrested in Illinois for reportedly assaulting a man she claimed was ''Islamophobic.''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… if they didn't arrest the "white guy."

While in the police cruiser, she asserted she was above American law, saying that the police should "bow down to me" and "listen to my orders."

Ms Dhahiry’s Kane County, IL booking photo can be seen here.

If this is her, she worked for the Cook County Sheriff Department as a re-entry care coordinator, whatever that is.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [202 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  When muslims migrate to the West muslim women and children experience the most profound qualitative change in their social status.

In majority muslim countries they are the lowest ranking social group, while in a Western non-muslim society they suddenly outrank the vast majority of the population, since according to muslim legal consensus the lowest among the muslims outrank the highest ranking kuffar.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/15/2025 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  according to muslim legal consensus the lowest among the muslims outrank the highest ranking kuffar

And leftist
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/15/2025 7:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudanese Armed Forces fighters preparing to move to the frontline.
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [52 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Reports: Russia's Revamped Wagner Group Suffers ‘Disaster' Defeat by Mali Jihadis
[Breitbart] The “Africa Corps,” the revised version of the infamous Wagner Group mercenary outfit founded by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, suffered a disastrous defeat in Mali at the hands of jihadi insurgents this month.

The insurgents released gruesome footage of their slain adversaries this week.

France24 News noted that in some of the video clips released by the Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Mulsimin (JNIM) insurgents, the jihadis refer to the slain mercenaries as “Wagner.”

The videos depict the aftermath of a slaughter, with dead soldiers splayed around a destroyed Russian military vehicle. JNIM claimed another military vehicle, 16 Kalashnikov rifles, two PK machine guns, ammunition, and “various other pieces of equipment” were captured after the engagement. The jihadis provided photographs of their loot.

No official casualty count has been provided by the Africa Corps, but JNIM sources claim up to 40 people were killed in the attack it documented, at least 14 of them Russians. The attack took place when an Africa Corps convoy was ambushed in territory that has long been controlled by the insurgents. The government of Mali has refused to comment on the incident, beyond confirming that the ambush occurred.

Russian military bloggers, many of whom romanticized the Wagner Group as tough soldiers of fortune, were appalled by JNIM’s videos. Some called it a “disaster” for Wagner’s successor organization. Others criticized Africa Corps leaders for foolishly underestimating their adversaries and failing to provide air support.

One Russian milblogger berated the Africa Corps for failing to learn from the Wagner Group personnel it inherited.

“We don’t listen to the Wagner idiots, who walked this land for years, who took their punches and know how to work here and how to work with the local population. We are too smart, we went to military school, we have experience on paper that dates back to Chechnya,” he imagined the new leadership saying.

The Wagner Group was a private military company founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin and former Russian military intelligence officer Dmitry Utkin in 2014. Prigozhin was close to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time, having risen from humble origins as a violent street thug to become a wealthy oligarch by providing catering services to government agencies.

Prigozhin plowed some of the fortune he made as “Putin’s Chef” into his new mercenary outfit, which quickly earned a reputation for ruthlessness. Many of Wagner’s fighters were convicted criminals recruited from Russian prisons.

Wagner’s exploits were condemned by human rights organizations around the world, and critics wondered just how “private” the company really was, since its operations tended to support Putin’s strategic goals.

The Wagner Group arguably relied more on sadistic brutality than military skill to develop its fearsome reputation. In February 2018, it made the mistake of teaming up with forces loyal to Putin-supported Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to attack a position held by U.S. special forces and their Kurdish and Arab allies. The Wagner unit was completely obliterated, to such an embarrassing degree that the Russian government hid the casualty count until the grieving families of the dead mercenaries were unwilling to remain silent.

The Syrian debacle spelled the beginning of the end of the Wagner Group, as Prigozhin was soured by the experience and grew increasingly critical of Putin. Prigozhin eventually mutinied against Putin, seized control of a Russian city, and sent Wagner troops to occupy Moscow. The insurrection was aborted, and both Prigozhin and his partner Utkin were killed in a highly suspicious plane crash in August 2023.

The Wagner Group was too useful for Putin to discard, especially since the mercenaries had established lucrative relationships with some Third World governments. One of the group’s major clients was Mali, which has been ruled by a military junta since 2020. The junta relied on Wagner’s support – supposedly as “instructors” – to fight against JNIM, an offshoot of al-Qaeda active throughout the Sahel region.

The Russian government remodeled the Wagner Group as the “Africa Corps,” a paramilitary organization more overtly managed by the Russian Defense Ministry. Many Wagner employees were folded into the Africa Corps, although some Wagner operatives are still flying the old Prigozhin flag.

Wagner was officially replaced by the Africa Corps in Mali in June. The government of the Central African Republic (CAR), another longtime Wagner client, said last week that Moscow is heavily pressuring it to “transition” from Wagner holdouts to the Africa Corps.

The CAR has resisted these demands because it feels the Wagner Group is more effective, and more “feared operationally,” than the Africa Corps. CAR officials also complained that Moscow demanded much higher payments for the services of the Africa Corps, including millions of dollars in fees paid directly to the Russian government.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 06:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [71 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Almost 70 Boko Haram militants surrender in Nigeria
[IOL.CO.ZA] Almost 70 members of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
have surrendered in north-eastern Nigeria. The bandidos bully boys gave themselves up over the past three weeks after repeated air and artillery bombardments as well as ambushes conducted by soldiers, army front man Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement on Thursday.

"The relentless offensive forced many of them to surrender to the troops," said Nwachukwu. The captured bandidos bully boys were now "undergoing a rehabilitation and deradicalization," the front man added.

Boko Haram poses a steady threat to communities in the north-east of Nigeria and has also launched offensives in neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
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Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [53 views] Top|| File under:


Suspected Boko Haram militants abduct 11 bus passengers in Cameroon-Xinhua
[ENGLISH.NEWS.CN] About 11 passengers of a bus have been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
turbans in Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
's Far North region, security sources said on Thursday.

The bus left the town of Kousseri in the region on Wednesday and was heading to the region's chief town, Maroua, when it was intercepted by button men.

"The holy warriors kidnapped all the men on the bus and freed the women. They allowed the driver to continue the journey with the women but seized his documents," an official in the region, who asked not to be named, told Xinhua by phone.

"We only learned about the abduction today (Thursday). Our forces have launched an operation to rescue them," the official added.

Abduction for ransom is common in the region where the terror group Boko Haram has been operating since 2014. %u25A0
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [61 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


‘Al-Qaeda in Sahel’ (JNIM) militants stormed a Burkina Faso Army positions in Youba.


Youba is northeast of Ouagadougou in the Centre-Nord Region of Burkina Faso.


Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [56 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Caribbean-Latin America
US deploys spy planes, a warship and submarine in escalating response to massive threat in Southern Caribbean Sea
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The United States has ordered the deployment of spy planes, a warship and even a submarine to the Southern Caribbean Sea to address the growing threat posed by Latin American narco mobs.

The directive marks yet another escalation by President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, who has long wanted to use the military to go after the narco gangs that he has designated as global terrorist organizations.

Just last week, he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare military options in the region, and the Department of Defense has now ordered the deployment of US air and naval forces, two sources briefed on the decision told Rooters.

The Trump administration has also previously deployed at least two warships to help in border security efforts and drug trafficking - an issue that the president focused on in his campaign.

The US military has also already increased its airborne surveillance of Mexican narco mobs to collect intelligence to determine how to best counter their activities.

Trump has even offered to send US troops to Mexico to help combat drug trafficking, an offer Mexico refused.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum even declared that the country will never accept the presence of the United States Army in their territory.

'This deployment is aimed at addressing threats to U.S. national security from specially designated narco-terrorist organizations in the region,' one of the sources explained.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [357 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  The Venezuelan dictator’s days are numbered
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Given the major weather issues for the area right now, that's going to be a very bumpy ride for the DOD.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/15/2025 4:30 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 08/15/2025 5:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Has anybody seen the submarine?
Maybe they just told you they sent one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/15/2025 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Planet wind map
Posted by: badanov || 08/15/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  US deploys spy planes, a warship and submarine in escalating response to massive threat in Southern Caribbean Sea

Good training !
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  The seas effect on our warships won't be anything compared to the effect on the ~12" freeboard surface running narco-"subs." And It'll be good training for us especially for the P8 ISAR operator.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 08/15/2025 15:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Has anybody seen the submarine?
Maybe they just told you they sent one.


Kinda like the stealthy drones we sent! :D
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/15/2025 16:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate
.No doubt to his shock, vicious ass who is old enough to know better gets actual consequences for his vicious assery.
[IsraelTimes] ‘You do realize that by supporting genocide that means it’s OK for people to commit genocide against you,’ John Reardon said one one of his phone calls, according to court papers

A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Thursday to more than two years in prison after he threatened to bomb synagogues and kill Jewish children in a series of calls he placed to two local houses of worship and the Israeli consulate in Boston after the outbreak of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war.

John Reardon, 60, was sentenced by US District Judge Julia Kobick in Boston to 26 months in jug after pleading guilty in November to charges related to what prosecutors said were dozens of violent mostly peaceful and antisemitic calls and voicemails he placed to Jewish institutions beginning on October 7, 2023.

Reardon’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment. But in court papers, she argued for a nine-month sentence, saying mental health issues led Reardon to commit a crime that was "terrifying, deeply hurtful, and will cause lasting fear in the victims."

He was charged in January 2024, as the US Department of Justice began to warn of a growing number of antisemitic threats nationally following the onset of the war.

The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-led murderous Moslems stormed into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures. Israel has killed more than 61,000 Paleostinians in its assault on Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures have not been verified and don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Prosecutors in court papers said Reardon, in a voicemail left with a synagogue in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on January 25, 2024, said that "you do realize that by supporting genocide that means it’s OK for people to commit genocide against you."

Prosecutors said Reardon also threatened to bomb Jewish places of worship and said that by "supporting the killing of innocent little children, that means it’s OK to kill your children."

Prosecutors said he then called another synagogue in Sharon, Massachusetts, and left a threatening voicemail. He also called the Israeli consulate in Boston 98 times over several months, saying in one call it was "time to prepare the furnaces again," according to prosecutors, a reference to the Nazis’ systematic extermination of Jews in the World War Two Holocaust.

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [100 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  But the asshole in Detroit, rolls on.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 6:04 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN says 13,000 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in July as aid trickles in
All of this is the fault of Hamas, with the UN and associated NGOs complicit. Read through that filter, this report takes on a very different meaning. Also, it’s proven that the UN lies when Israel is in anyway connected to the subject.
[IsraelTimes] Humanitarian agency says vast majority of aid trucks raided en route, but notes that despite challenges, food prices have dropped and kitchens are producing more hot meals

Close to 13,000 children were admitted to treatment centers in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
due to acute malnutrition in July amid severe food shortages, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a periodic update on the situation in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
That they said it is true. Whether the number is anywhere close to reality, and whether the malnourished are suffering because of the war Hamas started and continues to fight, as opposed to pre-existing medical or genetic conditions, is unknown.
The update released Wednesday painted a dire picture for the children of the Strip, with increased cases of acute malnutrition and hospitalizations putting the enclave’s overburdened and tattered healthcare system under even more strain.
Had Hamas not started the war, none of this would have happened. Cause —> effect.
According to OCHA, the total number of severe acute malnutrition cases diagnosed in children in July rose to 2,800, or roughly 22 percent of all childhood malnutrition cases diagnosed last month.
Out of perhaps 1.5 million or more children in Gaza, if the population really is 2 million? That’s an awful lot of kidlings who are doing just fine despite the war. And hey — what were the numbers before the war? Without historical perspective, how are we to know whether to be upset that it got worse or cheer that it’s gotten better?
While in most cases, acute malnutrition can be treated at any of the 106 outpatient sites dedicated to it across the Gaza Strip, OCHA said cases in which hospitalization is required have become increasingly challenging.

In total, 129 cases of severe acute malnutrition with complications that required hospitalization were diagnosed in July. This marked a sharp uptick in cases, as between the months of January to June, there were just 215 cases requiring hospitalization.
The war started 10/7/2023. Last January was also wartime conditions, so is not a useful comparison.
Despite the rising demand, there are still only five sites across the entire Gaza Strip at which children with complications of severe acute malnutrition can be stabilized and treated, OCHA said. Two of the stabilization sites are located in Gaza City, one is in Deir al-Balah, and the final two are located in Khan Younis.
Spain and France are taking pediatric medical cases and their families, among others that I can’t recall at the moment, and Israel — unlike Hamas — is happy to let them go.
In total, there are only 43 beds available across the five combined sites.

The report did not confirm the ages of the children diagnosed with malnutrition over the past month.
How many of those herin labelled “children” are actually not only adults, but parents or grandparents?
Gaza’s Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
-run health ministry has said that 42 children have died of malnutrition-related causes since July 1, along with 129 adults, although those numbers could not be independently verified.
…not even by Hamas, which is very fond of making stuff up.
Widening its purview to examine the state of the humanitarian conditions across the entire Strip, the OCHA report painted a bleak picture.

It said that while the UN’s World Food Programme collected 1,012 trucks carrying 13,000 metric tons of food from Gaza’s border crossings in July, only 10 of them ever reached their intended warehouses once inside the Strip.
1%?? That is an astoundingly bad failure rate. How much of the 99% goes into overstuffed Hamas warehouses, to be sold to the residents at war prices, and how much to other looters, also to be sold to the residents at war prices?
The remainder were "offloaded en route," it said, although it was unclear whether this was referring to organized theft or to looting by crowds of hungry civilians.
I vote the IDF finds and opens to the residents the Hamas warehouses.
In theory, OCHA said, the Food Security Sector believes there is enough food in or en route to Gaza to feed the population of roughly 2.1 million people for the next three months. But in reality, "the risk of spoilage and infestation of the stranded food supplies has significantly increased, and some of them are reaching their expiry dates."
If only the UN and related NGOs would work with the independent Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is very good at getting food to those who need it, instead of snubbing both GHF and Israel, leaving their own imports to rot in the sun, undistributed, out of spite.
It said that FSS was calling for "large-scale humanitarian assistance with guaranteed safe, unimpeded and sustained access" to ensure that the full amount of food earmarked for Gaza truly reaches its intended destination.

Images of starving Gazooks drew international outrage last month and heaped pressure on Israel until, on July 27, it announced measures to allow more aid into the Gaza Strip.

But aid agencies have warned that the slightly eased measures — including restarting the practice of airdropping supplies into Gaza — are not enough to fill the gap created by long months of little to no aid entering the enclave, and that on top of that, only a fraction of what is sent ends up entering the Strip.

Israel strongly denies limiting aid supplies and accuses Hamas of exploiting deliveries to boost its military capabilities.

On Thursday, dozens of aid groups signed a statement alleging that Israel was refusing to let a number of international NGOs distribute aid in Gaza, leaving millions of dollars’ worth of food and other assistance sitting in warehouses and putting future aid operations at risk.

Separately, the Haaretz newspaper reported that massive amounts of humanitarian aid have been spilling off trucks in Gaza and going to waste because the IDF is not allowing organizations to properly secure the cargo.

According to the report, Israeli soldiers at the Kerem Shalom Crossing rush aid workers to quickly load cargo onto trucks that are regularly delayed for hours at a time. Because the food isn’t tied down well and aid seekers are not given ample time to identify the route being used, aid has become easy to loot when the trucks reach areas where civilians are waiting.

The poorly secured aid also leads to large amounts of it spilling over, as the roads used by aid groups have been badly damaged by the war.

Even satellite images can show long trails of flour extending from the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that coordinates aid, said in response to the signed statement from aid workers that Israel invests "considerable efforts" in aid distribution, and does not place "any quantitative limit" on the number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip.

The agency did not address specific questions about aid shipment volumes, nor did it address Haaretz’s claim regarding Israeli restrictions on properly fastening aid to trucks.

INGREDIENT PRICES DROP, ACCESS TO HOT MEALS INCREASES
But even with large amounts of aid failing to reach their intended destination, and the dire warnings that the aid is falling far short of what is needed, the impact of the eased regulations could be felt in the Strip, OCHA said, as "different types of food have started to trickle into the markets."

As a result, the eased restrictions have lowered the price of some basic ingredients, it said, with the price of sugar dropping to NIS 30-40 ($9-12) per kilogram as of August 10, down from a peak price of NIS 600 ($180) per kilogram earlier this year.

And it wasn’t just ingredients that were becoming more available for Gaza’s civilians — the amount of hot meals prepared by humanitarian groups was increasing too, OCHA said.

It said that as of August 10, 324,000 meals were being prepared each day at 81 community kitchens across the Gaza Strip, up from 259,000 two weeks earlier.

Of that number, around 99,000 are distributed to people in the north of the Strip, and 225,000 to those in the center and south.

While trending in the right direction, OCHA reiterated that those numbers fall far short of the roughly one million meals that were distributed across the Strip daily back in April.

"People continue to suffer from extremely imbalanced diets that lack essential nutrients, increasing the risk of acute malnutrition," it cautioned.

Accessing humanitarian aid in the Strip continues to be dangerous, even though the quantity has somewhat increased in recent weeks, with near-daily reports of mass-casualty incidents near aid sites persisting.

On Thursday, a front man for Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said six people had been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid.

While the front man did not say whether the alleged incident occurred near an aid truck or at a designated aid distribution site, the majority of such incidents have been reported to occur near aid sites run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
says more than 1,300 people have been killed trying to obtain aid supplies in the enclave since the GHF began operating in May, most of them shot by Israeli forces operating near GHF sites.

Israel does not often comment on individual reports of shootings near aid sites, but the IDF has acknowledged in the past that it fires warning shots at crowds that get too close to its soldiers. Israel has also said the UN tallies exaggerated, though it hasn’t provided alternative casualty figures.

Related: Israel says review shows Hamas inflating Gaza hunger data in ‘orchestrated campaign’

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2025 2025-08-15 00:32 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [205 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  As always, UN lies.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/15/2025 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2 
After HAMAS, Gaza Gangs, and others hijacked supply trucks, raided distribution points, and more. Its amazing any of the general population saw more than 20% of the items sent.

A reminder to the UN.
Hama's/Iran's long planned and supplied and conducted attack on civilians, using the Islamic 2000 y/o+ genocidal agenda are the root cause of this.

What has the UN done about this?
It has facilitated the immigration of Millions of such people to Western Europe and the USA.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/15/2025 4:27 Comments || Top||

#3  As a wise man once said, as always, the UN lies. Idiocy piled onto/upon idiocy.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/15/2025 5:57 Comments || Top||


#5  #4 Should've measured parents IQ.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/15/2025 7:06 Comments || Top||

#6  ...and psychological health.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/15/2025 7:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Ask the tough question.

Let the 13,000(o.O) perish now, or drain the economy and continue to support them for 20 years, until the next generational war.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2025 7:41 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm more interested in the correlation between IQ and inbreeding.
Posted by: Ebbolutle Shurong6997 || 08/15/2025 13:40 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Nothing to it Ebbo. Can't promise you anything when you get on down South into Fulton County.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2025 13:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Or Detroit, Minneapolis.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/15/2025 17:34 Comments || Top||



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