5 Gazans crushed by airdropped food packages as helicopters try to avoid Hamas rockets
Boxes meant to save
At least five Gazans were killed today when airdropped food packages landed on them:
Video footage circulating on social media purports to show people being hit by aid packages airdropped into Gaza by countries including the United States.
Palestinian reports cited by Hebrew media say at least five people were killed near Gaza City when hit directly by the packages, while many more were injured.
The United States military, in coordination with Jordan, Egypt and France, airdropped more than 70,000 meals into northern Gaza over the past week.
Dropped on crowds?
While some reports claim that the parachutes on the aid packages did not open, the Jerusalem Post described the true source of the problem: in their effort to remain out of range of RPGs launched against US forces by Hamas fighters, helicopters are forced to fly too high to ensure that the airdropped packages land away from gatherings of people:
Hamas actively works against the distribution of food, attempting to shoot down food drops from the United States, Jordan, and the UAE. The presence of shoulder-fired missiles adds to the difficulty, as it becomes increasingly challenging to deliver aid accurately from a very high altitude, sometimes resulting in supplies being swept kilometers off course or into the sea [emphases added].
Even without parachutes, the aid boxes would land in empty areas, injuring no one, if the helicopter pilots were able to descend enough to accurately determine the impact site.
Keeping the people hungry
Governments generally try to avoid hunger in order to prevent food riots from breaking out, as such extreme unrest often leads to regime overthrow. Hamas is different:
A former senior Israeli defense official who I spoke to on condition of anonymity has also said that “there is no food shortage in Gaza; there are those who are hungry since Hamas has taken all of the [free] food and they don’t have enough money to pay Hamas on the black market.”
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 . . .
While it’s not accurate to say there is a famine in Gaza, there are indeed hungry individuals struggling because they can’t afford food. Even if Gaza were to be inundated with food supplies, hunger would persist because the issue at its core is not about availability but access and affordability [emphases added].
Why?
The Jerusalem Post went on to hypothesize that Hamas is creating this food crisis to maintain control:
THE MOTIVE behind targeting food aid is clear: to demonstrate a lack of food and, by extension, an ongoing state of hunger. This tactic aims to suggest that any resolution in Gaza that diminishes Hamas’s power – including peace – is undesirable.
The simplest way to maintain control of a populace is to be popular with the masses, by not charging them for food they know was donated for free, and not executing political rivals (while claiming all dissidents are collaborators).
The real reason
The Gold Report described Hamas' long-term plan more than a month ago. It includes the building of a seaport that could potentially be used to import military equipment into Gaza, perhaps even tanks:
The plan
Hamas shook up the status quo in order to push Israel to make concessions it would not make in the absence of a crisis. Chief among the sought-after concessions is an authorization for the PLO, Hamas, or a third group to operate air and sea ports in Gaza that can be used to bring Iranian and other enemy nations' tanks and fighter planes into Gaza. The planned agreement may include a signature on a piece of paper agreeing to a “demilitarized state,” but the West Bank and Gaza are already supposedly demilitarized, despite thousands of missiles being shot from Gaza and road bombs being planted in the West Bank, illustrating that it is unlikely any future demilitarization will be enforced.
Willing to pay the price
Thus, despite Israel's large military campaign against Hamas, the setbacks to the terror group are but planned, short-term losses to achieve the goals of demonizing the government and justifying international pressure forcing the government into risky concessions far more significant to the revolutionaries than the loss of even thousands of their fighters (who can be replaced by new recruits with high salary offers, as long as the flow of Western money continues, or even increases, to allow the "oppressed" population to "rebuild" - some twenty thousand young men turn 18 years old this year in Gaza).
Hamas is even willing to have some of its leaders leave Gaza while others switch affiliation to the PLO or its subsidiary, the Palestinian Authority, as it is working together with the PLO in a “good cop/bad cop” ploy described below in step 6 and its payroll is already intertwined with that of the PLO:
Some 70,000 Gazans remain on the payroll of the [PLO subsidiary] Palestinian Authority [and claim to not work].
Executing the plan
To execute their plan to vastly increase the military threat to Israel (even if that threat would be in the hands of “former” Hamas members that supposedly defected to the PLO or other groups), Hamas launched a shockingly brutal attack, pushing Israel into a major operation to minimize the threat of a repeat attack. The terrorist organization knew it would thereby bring about the destruction of swathes of Gaza and endanger its civilians, as its fighters are accustomed to embed themselves within the population. They have also been documented seizing and attacking food and aid shipments.
Then, after Gazans unable to obtain food packages from Hamas stampeded, Israeli troops at a checkpoint were attacked, forcing them to shoot in self-defense and leading to false charges that they fired on the hungry.
Joe Biden then suggested the “reward” for the attack — a seaport built and paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Whether it will be practical in the shallow waters off Gaza, whether it will remain temporary (as Biden claims), and whether Hamas or their successors will succeed in exploiting it to import heavy military equipment, remain to be seen.
Check back for our continuing coverage of Hamas and Israel as we look at the Israeli officials behind the intelligence failures of October 7th, their role in bringing Hamas to power, and the way in which they are managing the war.
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