The AP has a story about the UN cutting off food distribution in Gaza. Why? Because they can’t get fuel to distribute the food. Why? Because Hamas is stealing half the fuel, and refusing to deliver the other half. But is that what the AP says in their lead?
Of course not. Here’s what your local newspaper is going to print tomorrow:
UN halts Gaza food aid over fuel cutoff; Israel blames Hamas
The United Nations stopped distributing food to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after its vehicles ran out of fuel because of the Israeli blockade, a U.N. official said.Israeli countered that fuel is available, but said the Islamic group Hamas ruling Gaza is preventing it from being distributed.
A spokesman for the United Nations’ Relief Works Agency, Adnan Abu Hasna, said 700,000 Palestinians won’t be getting packages of basic foods because the agency could not bring in new shipments or distribute them without fuel for its vehicles.
Note the weasel-word “countered,” as if this is a he-said/she-said argument. It is not. There is absolute proof that the fuel is not being distributed, and the AP offers that proof—in nearly the last two paragraphs of the article. Buried deeply, so that the truth will not be read in your international section in your local paper.
There is some fuel stored in Gaza but a local strike by distributors means it is not reaching the public.
So, it’s the Palestinians’ fault that the fuel isn’t reaching the Palestinians. Funny, I don’t get that from the rest of this story. And gee, how much is “some” fuel?
Palestinian distributors have been refusing to pick up about 264,000 gallons that Israel pumped earlier this month into the Palestinian side of a border fuel depot, saying the quantity is insufficient.
That much, huh? So there’s plenty of fuel, but the Palestinians are letting it sit in the Nahal Oz crossing—site of a recent terror attack that murdered two civilians. And that’s not all. Here’s another fact that got buried deep within the story.
Col. Nir Press of the Israeli military liaison unit with Gaza said Israel agreed to allow fuel shipments for the U.N. agency to keep its vehicles on the road, but Hamas stopped the delivery.
“We don’t control the internal situation in Gaza between Hamas and UNWRA,” he said. “I hope the Hamas will allow UNWRA access to the fuel we have supplied.”
So UNWRA is, once again, toeing the Hamas line and blaming Israel for what is absolutely Hamas’ fault. Hamas refuses to let Israel deliver fuel to the UN vehicles that carry food to the Palestinians. Why? To manufacture a fake crisis. Why? So they can then blame Israel for starving Gaza, when it is Hamas’ actions that are causing the shortages to begin with. And then, Hamas can break through the Israeli border and pretend that they’re justified in doing so, as they did with the crossing into Egypt.
The worst thing about all this? The UN, the media, Hamas, and Israel all know that Hamas is causing these fuel shortages deliberately. And still, the AP publishes a story like the one quoted above, instead of being bold and publishing the truth: That Hamas is deliberately causing a fake crisis in Gaza. The media are not only not objective in this, they are actively aiding the terrorists by publishing stories such as these.
Not that I expect any better of them. Not any more.