hamas has no problem demonstrating that it cares not one bit about the safety and well being of Gazan citizens….and most of the world has no problem looking the other way when it does.
Let’s see how they react to this statement from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF):
Tonight, at approximately 10 p.m. Gaza time, a bus carrying more than two-dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team, local Palestinians working side-by-side with the U.S. GHF team to deliver critical aid, were brutally attacked by Hamas. At the time of the attack, our team was en route to one of our distribution centers in the area west of Khan Younis.
We are still gathering facts, but what we know is devastating: there are at least five fatalities, multiple injuries, and fear that some of our team members may have been taken hostage. We condemn this heinous and deliberate attack in the strongest possible terms. These were aid workers. Humanitarians. Fathers, brothers, sons, and friends, who were risking their lives everyday to help others. Our hearts are broken and our thoughts and prayers are with every victim, every family, and every person still unaccounted for.
This attack did not happen in a vacuum. For days, Hamas has openly threatened our team, our aid workers, and the civilians who receive aid from us. These threats were met with silence.
The GHF holds Hamas fully responsible for taking the lives of our dedicated workers who have been distributing humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people at the foundation’s sites in central and southern Gaza.
Tonight, the world must see this for what it is: an attack on humanity. We call on the international community to immediately condemn Hamas for this unprovoked attack and continued threat against our people simply trying to feed the Palestinian people.
We will release additional information once it becomes available. Despite this heinous attack, we will continue our mission to provide critical aid to the people of Gaza.
Translation: hamas, which tells us in so many words (read its covenant and see for yourself) that it is committed to obliteratin Israel, killing all Jews (not just Israeli Jews) and it rejects any and all so-called “two state solutions”, also has no problem preventing Gazan citizens – the people they are allegedly protecting – from getting food.
The fact that there is massive evidence hamas expropriates food deliveries to Gaza uses the food/other supplies for itself, and sells the rest at inflated prices to the people they are supposed to be fighting for? Another little factoid that most of the world refuses to react to. After all, it flies in the face of the current meme, that Israel is starving Gazans.
Bottom line? if it isn’t usable against Israel, it doesn’t count.
I wish I could come up with a potential solution to this horror show; one that might result in peace between Israel and Gaza. But I can’t. I don’t see one.
Right now all we can do is hope that, someday, this will change. But I don’t expect to see that change in my lifetime.
