Raids on food distribution centres expected, says WFP
A senior spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) has said the raids at several aid distribution centres in Gaza on Saturday were “expected” because of the “difficult conditions facing people”.
Speaking to the BBC earlier, Abeer Etefa said: “The bottom line is that people are desperate, they are hungry.”
Etefa suggested that Saturday’s phone and internet blackout may have contributed to the events at the warehouses and distribution centres. The WFP had to halt its distribution of food because it was unable communicate with teams on the ground, she said.
“We’re resuming today now that the service is coming slowly back.”
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Catching up on articles by Spencer Ackerman…
And some of the spill over…
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RSF video investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: the journalists’ vehicle was explicitly targeted
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy that resulted in the death of one journalist and the injury of several others. The initial findings of the investigation show that the reporters were not collateral victims of the shooting. One of their vehicles, marked “press”, was targeted, and it was also clear that the group stationed next to it was journalists.
A senior U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, said Israel had shut off communications to Gaza — and that the United States had pressured the Israeli government to switch them back on. The Israelis did not give a reason to U.S. counterparts about why they had switched off communications networks in Gaza on Friday night ahead of their incursion, the official added.
“We made it clear they had to be turned back on,” the official said. “The communications are back on. They need to stay back on.”
What in the fucketing fuck…
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“Al Jazeera’s broadcasts and reports constitute incitement against Israel, help Hamas-ISIS and the terror organizations with their propaganda, and encourage violence against Israel,” insisted the communications minister, a member of the hardline flank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
What a trumpy thing to say.
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In the 1980s, while living in Moscow, Abbas wrote a much-debunked thesis claiming that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust, which he has since distanced himself from. In public and private, however, the president has frequently made antisemitic remarks over the years.
More on the evangelical view of Israel…
Written in April:
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Perhaps Abbas thinks that making antisemitic remarks will persuade Palestinians that he isn’t a puppet of Israel. I’ve read that under Hosni Mubarak the Egyptian government censored the Egyptian media but turned a blind eye to rampant antisemitism to obscure the government’s friendly relations with Israel.
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