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JOEL B. POLLAK<\/strong><\/p>\n The Hamas terrorist organization is starving Palestinians in Gaza by stealing food that arrives in humanitarian aid shipments and then selling it on the black market, according to Zvika Klein, editor of the Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n Those who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices are going hungry, he said \u2014 not for lack of aid deliveries, but because Hamas seizes the aid on entry and uses it to enrich itself and fund its ongoing war against Israel.<\/p>\n Klein\u2019s account of the situation in Gaza corroborates anecdotal information from social media videos, showing people selling food supplies delivered through international humanitarian aid in marketplaces within Gaza.<\/p>\n In an op-ed, Klein explained:<\/p>\n \u201cThe food shortage and use of the word \u2018hunger\u2019 have been exaggerated,\u201d a senior Israeli defense official told me on Thursday during a briefing. \u201cThere is no hunger in Gaza,\u201d he said, explaining that most of the food that Israel has been sending into the Strip has \u201cimmediately been taken by Hamas terrorists, who then sell some of the supplies for ten times more than what it\u2019s worth.\u201d<\/p>\n A former senior Israeli defense official who I spoke to on condition of anonymity has also said that \u201cthere is no food shortage in Gaza; there are those who are hungry since Hamas has taken all of the food and they don\u2019t have enough money to pay Hamas on the black market.\u201d<\/p>\n According to this former official, the food does not reach those who need it most since Hamas controls approximately 70-80% of the area. What happens is that Israel and foreign countries bring food and aid into Gaza. Then gangs take the supplies at gunpoint, and a significant portion of the population is left unable to afford necessities.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n This is going exactly as anyone with functioning grey matter foresaw, perhaps worse. In other news an air-dropped pallet of relief supplies had a parachute malfunction, augered in and killed five.<\/p>\n Five killed and 10 injured in Gaza aid airdrop when parachute fails to open<\/strong>
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