The Biden administration continues dreaming up ways to deliver aid to Gaza while knowing full well that aid is going to be stolen, likely by Hamas terrorists.
On Friday, 10 truckloads of food aid arrived at United Nations facilities in Gaza, courtesy of President Joe Biden’s Gaza pier, a sitting duck target for Hamas terrorists if they ever decide to launch an attack on it. Then, on Saturday, only five trucks arrived after the other 11 were “cleaned out by Palestinians.” No aid arrived on Sunday or Monday. (The pier is supposed to be helping deliver 90 trucks of aid per day).
In other words, reality once again has gotten in the way of Biden’s poorly laid plans. We know Hamas has been stealing aid in Gaza for years, and there are even reports that U.N. employees are stealing and reselling aid. Even if neither Hamas nor U.N. employees are behind these thefts, that means other Palestinians are stealing aid to hoard or resell, which defeats the purpose of it being “aid” in the first place.
This has been the problem with aid to Gaza for years. Even when the aid does arrive, it has to go through the corrupt U.N. with dubious (to put it lightly) ties to Hamas, if U.N. employees aren’t stealing that aid first. Now, Biden is putting the lives of American soldiers at risk to continue to push a small amount of aid to Palestinians in Gaza in hopes that it doesn’t get stolen as most aid has been.
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Worst of all, Biden is causing this problem to continue being dragged out by trying to pressure Israel into letting Hamas survive and rebuild. That pressure delayed Israel’s plan to go into Rafah to eliminate Hamas, allowing the war to continue and the need for aid to continue to increase. Biden is prolonging the war, stretching out the effects of war on the population of Gaza, and then inefficiently delivering aid that is stolen to enrich thieves or go into Hamas stockpiles.
Biden continues to try and play both sides of this conflict for his reelection, so he will undoubtedly consider other means of offering aid to be stolen in Gaza, but he will not learn his lesson. Gaza is run by terrorists, and the U.N. is a corrupt mess. Any aid deliveries that rely on good behavior from either of those parties are not going to do much to help the civilians in Gaza who need aid the most.