According to a hadith, Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268).
“Hamas famine narrative evaporates as Gaza food prices slashed,” by David Isaac, JNS, April 2, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition composed of Hamas and other terrorist groups, recently announced price drops for food in the Gaza Strip.
Gazan merchants said, “An average family can now buy products for a hearty meal with 100 shekels [$27.15], compared to 200 shekels required for such a meal just a few days ago,” Ynet reported.
The news is in line with a report issued last week by the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit, which has been coordinating aid for Gaza.
According to COGAT’s latest statistics, 205 aid trucks were inspected and sent into the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Also on Sunday, 232 packages with “hundreds and thousands of meals” were airdropped over Gaza’s north.
In addition, tankers of cooking gas and fuel for essential infrastructure were delivered.
Twenty-one bakeries are operating in Gaza, providing more than 2 million breads, rolls and pita breads a day, COGAT said.
In recent weeks, Hamas, the United Nations, international relief groups and others accused Israel of placing Gazans at risk for imminent starvation. The allegations were quickly picked up by Western media.
The storm over the impending food shortage reached a climax with the issuance of a March 18 report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) multi-partner initiative claiming that 578,000 Gazans were facing “acute food insecurity.”
COGAT released a report on March 29 refuting the IPC’s assertions, noting, “In recent months between 150 and 200 trucks are admitted per day, most of which are food trucks. This is an 80% spike in comparison to the daily average food trucks that entered Gaza pre-October 7.
“The report alleges that the amount of water is less than 1 liter per day per person,” COGAT said, but based on its assessment “the daily average quantity of water [is] over 20 liters of drinking and cooking water per person per day.”
The IPC report’s assertions appeared disconnected from facts on the ground as COGAT noted the IPC called for restoring humanitarian access across the Gaza Strip when Israel had already facilitated aid access to the entire territory….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Looks like Israel did the right thing by torching the WCT convoy, and destroying all that gourmet food. Otherwise, that would have sold for pennies in Gaza, if not been distributed for free
࿗Infidel࿘ says
WCTWCKDick Tracy says
Did anyone check the website of WCK? No? Check it out! Look at the huge red sea-going tug boat, prominently displaying the name of this organisation. And what do sea-going tug boats do? They tug boats. What boats? Guess what…
In other words, WCK is active ‘formulating’ EU immigration policy.
Meanwhile, word is that the mass immigration can not be stopped. BS!
somehistory says
““An average family ” Is that the family of one old male of the hairy kind, his four wives, his captured sex slaves (who don’t get to eat until the family has finished) and the sixteen children?
just this morning on the *news feed* was a photo of a little kid with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes, ribs showing under his skin and the headline about children starving in Gaza. It looked like photos taken years ago in some African country experiencing famine due to the governments there holding donations until the food rotted.
If kids are starving in Gaza, it’s because food is being withheld by the terrorists who have the kids under the thumb.
Now, how about some prices being lowered here in the U.S.?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/good-morning-america-left-stunned-by-grocery-prices-compared-to-four-years-ago/vi-BB1l8va5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c8b98c80a0934cedae0f7c67941c6773&ei=55
࿗Infidel࿘ says
We’d have to rebrand ourselves “Palestinians” in order to get any of that food. Not even “East Palestinians”, but “Palestinians”. Shouldn’t be hard: if the Arabs of the south Levant could rebrand themselves “Palestinians”, how hard could it be for us to do the same, and get all the largess from NGOs worldwide? 😈
somehistory says
How about ‘palestinian migrants’? We could do what a guy said he was going to do several years ago….go down to Mexico and walk back across the border speaking Spanish.
We might even get free housing for a few years.
Personally, I’m glad not to be receiving so-called ‘free stuff.’ too many things attached.
tgusa says
“We could do what a guy said he was going to do several years ago….go down to Mexico and walk back across the border speaking Spanish.”
That is funny. and most likely true. A friend back around the late 70s who was down in Mexico got in some trouble drinking at a bar in Tijuana. Got attacked by some locals, lost his ID, but still the cops there were after him.
I got a phone call from him and he told me the story. I asked, do you want me to come down to the border and get you? His reply, no dont bother.I will just sneak back across the border tonight. See you tomorrow. Then he hung up.
somehistory says
The guy sounded serious. He said he couldn’t get help he needed, so he was growing his beard, wearing scruffy clothes and learning Spanish.
Guessing your friend sneaked back in okay.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If you both recall, a few years ago, I think in 2017, Bill DeBlassio and Austin mayor Steven Adler both crossed the border illegally into Mexico and then illegally sneaked back in again. Essentially, at the border, while immigration was doing some of their paperwork, they apparently couldn’t wait for it to be complete, so just went into Mexico illegally, before illegally re-entering
No wonder their party is so enamored w/ illegal immigration
tgusa says
Yeah he got back okay. Knowing him I had no doubt he would come through OK, that guy, oh man.
Never heard that story until now Infidel.
somehistory says
Infidel, not sure I heard it either, but I’m not surprised. They insist we who are law-abiding are the criminals and then do as they wish instead of following the law they are sworn to uphold. And yes, they welcome illegal crossings with open arms.
tgusa, glad your friend made it out okay. I’ve heard horror stories about some who didn’t due to the criminals in the Mexican LE. I guess one needs street smarts of an illegal kind.
tgusa says
He was the toughest most fearless guy I have ever known in my entire life. It was the bad guys who had to worry. What he did is not for everyone.
Taffy says
If I recall correctly, the Gazans are among the 10 most obese groups in the world as measured by BMI. Losing a few pounds will greatly improve their general health.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
While the ignorant leaders of Western countries like the US and Australia fall for the Hamas driven Palestinian narrative of Israeli forced starvation it turns out that Israel has been providing humanitarian food and resources relief all along.
tgusa says
No doubt they gazans are paying less for food in a war zone than we here in the USA are now (thanks to biden and his crazies) paying at the local grocery store for the food and necessities we need.
tgusa says
How many millions does hamas have in it’s coffers donated to them by leftist organizations and other muslim countries? I pose this question because I know they do. I know that if I myself (average American) know this there are a lot more people that are really in the know that know, yes, lots of money. But no, with hamas, the friend of its people not a single dime for humanitarian aid for their people. Tunnels and bunkers, guns and ammo, bombs and missiles, disguises, etc. Those are the only things hamas has cash to spend on.
We should be calling out hamas for genocide against their own people.
OLD GUY says
You are right, Hamas will let the people of Gaza starve to death if it is a choice between spending those millions on guns or food.
tgusa says
And lastly. How come no islamic countries have stepped forward with humanitarian aid for the beleaguered gazans? Do they not have any money, are they cheapskates or do they just not care? Why do we see so many Western governments concerned about it all while they skip right over any obligation from any and all of the countries in the region?
somehistory says
In my opinion, other mozlum-ruined nations and their governments don’t help out because the so-called ‘palestinians’ are a weapon each uses against Israel; and the people of other nations, such as the U.S. because the biden gang sends tax-payer money to the ghouls.
If any nation ruined by mozlums invited the ‘palestinains’ in, the invited would refuse the invitation because they like demanding that Israel give up the land to them, whining when they don’t get what they want, and using terror to terrorize the Israelis.
And for the same reason the palestinians are not invited by other mozlums, no aid is sent in because then they couldn’t claim no aid was allowed in.
abu taleb says
Compare what Muhammad did to the Jews with what Israel does to the Gazans. Banu Qurayza for example. Muhammad sieged Banu Qurayza until they surendered, then killed the adult males and enslaved the rest. What Israel does to the Gazans even uncomparably kind in magnitude than what Muhammad did.
Muslims claim Muhammad is the best man in the history, but ironically, they can not even give an example that can be said as better than what most people think as a good thing to do. On the other hand, we can show a lot of examples of evil things Muhammad did.
If Islam forbids lies, then Islam will be vanished in no time. Therefore, Islam allows lies and uses coercion together with lies to keep people in Islam.