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Israel claims Hamas has 'enough food to spark obesity epidemic' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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An Israeli government spokesperson claimed yesterday that Hamas has “enough food to spark an obesity epidemic” after the occupation state decided on Sunday to suspend the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

The credible organisation 'The UN'

Israel and U.N. disagree over Gaza aid figures

While Israel says the number of trucks entering Gaza has risen sharply in recent days, the U.N. has given much lower figures, and says it is still far less than the amount required to meet humanitarian needs.

While Israel said 419 trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, the main U.N. agency there, UNRWA, said only 223 trucks had come in on that day.

Do you know what the sentence 'wir haben er nicht gewust' means? The Nazis were not nearly as meticulous in their documentation as your fantasy leads you to believe. Israel has documented the Gaza genocide far far better than the Nazis have.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social -3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That is seriously bad faith. Keep reading.

"The U.N.'s incorrect numbers are a result of their flawed counting method. Rather than counting the actual number of trucks that enter the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to conceal their logistical distribution difficulties, they only count the trucks that they have picked up from the Gazan side of the border," COGAT said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Jens Laerke the spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said the Israeli count was for trucks that were only partially filled to comply with its military's screening requirements. "COGAT counts what they screen and send across the border. We count trucks that arrive in our warehouses," Laerke said.

"Trucks that go in, screened by COGAT, are typically only half full. That is a requirement that they have put in place for screening purposes. When we count the trucks on the other side, when they have been reloaded, they are full," he said.

Other Israeli restrictions mean the trucks often do not move through the border and into warehouses in a single day, further complicating a clear count, Laerke said.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago

Explain why Israel is blocking aid trucks without sounding like a Nazi 3.2.1 go.