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Israelis ransack trucks, destroy food bound for starving in Gaza

German ambassador to Israel slams ‘disgraceful’ attacks on aid convoys

Germany’s Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert has condemned attacks by right-wing Israeli activists on convoys delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

  • “To raid aid trucks and prevent food from reaching the needy is disgraceful. And it certainly won‘t help the Israeli cause of freeing the hostages and securing the country against the terror of Hamas,” he wrote in a post on X.

  • On Sunday, Israeli far-right activist group Tzav 9, which seeks to stop all humanitarian aid going into Gaza, blocked a shipment as it went through the Tarqumiyah checkpoint near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

  • US National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said the attack was “completely and utterly unacceptable behaviour”.

Source: Al Jazeera

Header: Damaged trailer trucks and their relief supplies that were carrying humanitarian aid destined for Gaza on the Israeli side of the Tarqumiyah crossing with the occupied West Bank on May 13, 2024 [Oren Ziv/AFP]

Source: Al Jazeeera

UPDATE. COMMENTS

‘This is not our Judaism’

Sapir Sluzker Amran, the rights activist who documented the aid convoy looting near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, says Israelis have a “moral duty” to oppose fellow citizens who are committing abuses towards Palestinians.

  • “I say this with tears because of what happened yesterday [the destruction of aid]. It doesn’t represent many Israelis and many Jews,” Sluzker Amran told Al Jazeera.
  • “My family is Iraqi. I see grandmothers and grandfathers in Gaza begging for food. We condemn it and we hope to stop it. This is a moral obligation to fight our own people in order to tell them what they are doing is wrong,” she said.

  • “I will keep organising more people to fight and to say: This is not our Judaism, this is not the society we want to live in,” she added.

  • “We have to stop this war. We cannot let this bloodshed continue.”

Source: Al Jazeera

‘The police supported them’: Israeli rights activist on aid convoy looting

Sapir Sluzker Amran, an Israeli human rights lawyer who went to the Tarqumiyah crossing in Hebron to document the looting of a Gaza-bound aid convoy yesterday, has described the scenes to Al Jazeera.

For hours, a group of far-right Israeli activists tore food parcels out of aid trucks and destroyed them, including boxes of rice and noodles headed to desperately hungry people in Gaza.

Police at the scene protected the activists, giving them “full permission to do whatever they wanted”, said Sluzker Amran.

  • “I didn’t see anyone being arrested. The only one who was asked to leave was me,” she added, noting that the activists also threatened and physically attack her for trying to document the incident.

She said she believes police or security forces fed the activists information on when and where the aid trucks would arrive, with the information being shared openly on social media platforms.

Source: Al Jazeera

UK’s Cameron slams Israeli settler attack on Gaza-bound aid
Britain’s foreign secretary calls Monday’s attack on an aid convoy and its looting near Hebron in the occupied West Bank “appalling”.

In a post on X, David Cameron described the Israeli settlers who looted the trucks and destroyed the food supplies the vehicles were carrying before setting them on fire as “extremists”.

“Israel must hold attacks to account and do more to allow aid in,” his post read. “I will be raising my concerns with the Israeli government.”

Source: Al Jazeera