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2025-06-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Gaza clans deny Hamas is stealing aid, after Israel partially halts deliveries
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[IsraelTimes] Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it was the only aid group operating in the enclave Thursday, as UN officials say access to border crossing was blocked by Israel
Clan leaders 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 ...
denied on Thursday that gunnies who were seen riding atop trucks of humanitarian aid in the Strip were Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
operatives, saying instead that they were protecting the aid from being stolen, after Israel scaled back aid deliveries to the territory over the assertion that Hamas operatives had returned to stealing the supplies.
Earlier on Thursday, after images were circulated of masked men on aid trucks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had declared in a joint statement with Defense Minister Israel Katz that there was evidence of Hamas once again taking control of aid entering the enclave’s north.
They said that the Israel Defense Forces had been instructed to present a plan to prevent this from happening within the next 48 hours.
Following the joint statement and a separate Channel 12 report claiming that all aid deliveries had been halted due to concerns that Hamas was stealing aid, Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer told news hounds that aid was continuing to enter the Strip from the south. While he declined to specify whether deliveries to the north had been stopped, two officials confirmed to Rooters that they had been.
At the same time, the Higher Commission for Tribal Affairs, which represents influential clans in Gaza, denied that the masked men in the images were Hamas operatives, and said the trucks had been protected as part of an aid security process, managed "solely through tribal efforts."
The commission said that no Paleostinian faction, a reference to Hamas, had been involved in the process. The Paleostinian terror group, which has ruled Gaza for almost two decades but now controls only part of the territory, also denied any involvement.
Throughout the war in Gaza, which erupted with the deadly Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, numerous clans, civil society groups, and factions — including Hamas’s secular political rival Fatah — have stepped in to help provide security for the aid convoys.
Clans made up of extended families connected through blood and marriage have long been a fundamental part of Gazook society.
Amjad al-Shawa, director of an umbrella body for Paleostinian non-governmental organizations, said the aid protected by clans on Wednesday was being distributed to vulnerable families.
There is an acute shortage of food and other basic supplies after the nearly two-year military campaign by Israel that has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants, as Hamas continues to hold 50 Israelis hostage.
Aid trucks and warehouses storing supplies have often been looted, with Israel accusing Hamas of stealing aid for its own fighters or to sell to finance its operations, an accusation Hamas denies, while others say the looters frequently are desperate and starving Paleostinians.
"The clans came ... to form a stance to prevent the aggressors and the thieves from stealing the food that belongs to our people," Abu Salman Al Moghani, a representative of Gazook clans, said, referring to Wednesday’s operation.
ONLY GHF WAS ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE AID THURSDAY
Although Mencer told news hounds that aid deliveries to the south of the Gaza Strip had continued as normal, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said it was the only group allowed to distribute aid on Thursday, suggesting that no trucks entered via the Kerem Shalom Crossing.
The humanitarian aid trucks that enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom in the south and Zikim in the north carry supplies including flour, food and medical equipment, and are intended to supplement the aid distributed by GHF, which operates on a smaller scale and is limited to certain areas.
A UN spokesperson confirmed to The Times of Israel that Israeli authorities had blocked its teams from accessing the Zikim Crossing, where they had been seeking to pick up assistance.
The UN has acknowledged that its convoys have been plagued by looting, but has blamed armed gangs rather than Hamas and has insisted that the solution is for Israel to allow much more aid into Gaza so that demand decreases.
An average of just 56 trucks have been entering Gaza per day since Israel partially lifted its blockade after 78 days on May 19. The UN says several hundred are needed daily to address the dire need in the Strip.
GHF argues that its model is more effective, asserting that its aid convoys have not been looted, as it has its button men who prevent such takeovers.
But the organization only operates up to four distribution sites across the entire Strip, none of which are in the north, and Gazooks are forced to walk long distances while crossing IDF lines to pick up the supplies.
The State Department on Thursday approved $30 million in funding for GHF, calling on other countries to also support the group despite the criticism.
"This support is simply the latest iteration of President Trump’s and Secretary Rubio’s pursuit of peace in the region," State Department deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said of the approval.
The $30 million falls well below the $500 million that the US reportedly considered giving GHF earlier this month.
There have been near-daily mass casualty incidents in which the IDF has opened fire on Paleostinians it says strayed off approved access routes or were using them when forbidden. Some of these incidents have taken place on roads used by the UN for aid distribution and are not near GHF sites.
In a statement confirming that GHF was alone in distributing aid on Thursday, the organization’s interim executive director, John Acree, said GHF hopes "this will be a temporary pause and all other aid organizations will soon be able to resume distribution in the region."
"It is imperative that aid be distributed in a responsible way directly to the people who need it," he said.
GHF said that, in total, it distributed 38,880 boxes of food at three of its sites on Thursday.
It has said its boxes contain enough food for 5.5 people for 3.5 days, but the contents are dry food products that require preparation elsewhere in war-ravaged Gaza, where community kitchens and cooking supplies are limited.
MEDICAL AID REACHES GAZA FOR FIRST TIME IN MONTHS
Highlighting the difficulties in delivering aid to the population of the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization said on Thursday that it had finally delivered a medical shipment on Wednesday, for the first time since March 2.
It said, however, that the nine truckloads were "a drop in the ocean."
Wednesday’s shipment of supplies, plasma and blood will be distributed among hospitals in the territory in the coming days, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
He said the nine trucks carrying essential medical supplies, 2,000 units of blood and 1,500 units of plasma were delivered via the Kerem Shalom Crossing, "without any looting incident, despite the high-risk conditions along the route."
"These supplies will be distributed to priority hospitals in the coming days," Tedros said.
"The blood and plasma were delivered to Nasser Medical Complex’s cold storage facility for onward distribution to hospitals facing critical shortages, amid a growing influx of injuries, many linked to incidents at food distribution sites."
The reported mass-casualty incidents at aid distribution points didn’t show any signs of slowing down on Thursday, as the Hamas-linked civil defense agency said Israeli forces had killed 56 people in the war-ravaged enclave throughout the day, updating a previous toll of 35.
Civil defense front man Mahmoud Bassal told AFP that six of those killed had been waiting for aid in two separate locations.
There was no comment from the IDF on the reported strikes.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 56,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 Death Eaters inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 440. The toll includes two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors. 
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