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💢 Seven Palestinian police officers, including member of Gaza’s female police unit, were killed Tuesday when Israeli forces struck the Jabalia police station. The interior ministry identified them as - Muhammad Salem, police captain in Jabalia - Yamen Obeid - Abdul Malik Abu al-Jibeen - Ghassan al-Daqas - Mufid Halawa - Ibrahim Mousa - Fatima Zaqout, a member of the women’s police unit Personnel from the same station had been accused this week by UN humanitarian coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov of obstructing a WFP aid operation in Jabalia. Gaza’s Interior Ministry strongly rejected the allegations, saying police intervened during a chaotic attempted theft and discovered contraband inside aid trucks. Israel’s COGAT agency, which manages the entry of aid into Gaza, later amplified Alakbarov’s statement to accuse Hamas of seizing aid and undermining its distribution — hours later Israel struck and killed 7 officers at the same station this morning, continuing its systematic assault on Gaza’s civil security police and personnel. Some 3,000 of the 10,000 Gaza civil police officers have been murdered by Israeli forces, including a large percentage who were on the job.

Abubaker Abed

Abubaker Abed

@RamizAlakbarov put out a deplorable statement condemning security forces in Gaza for allegedly intervening in or obstructing humanitarian aid distribution — a gift for Israel and its allies to capitalise on in order to lay more groundwork for additional genocidal actions in the territory, especially against civil police forces. The same security or police forces that Israel has systematically targeted and mass murdered while securing aid operations in Gaza during the course of genocide, which Dr Ramiz seemingly never condemned. He also never thanked them for risking their lives to protect aid lorries and secure their safe entry into the strip. I was in Gaza and repeatedly saw firsthand how ordinary people with security forces were burned to death by Israel before my eyes to ease the humanitarian organisations' work and speed up their relief efforts. Never once did somebody within these orgs complain or anything. The police body in Gaza has in fact an incredible record of respecting and collaborating with INGOs and allowing them to operate fully and freely for the past 20 years. It is actually Israel that steals, harasses, and brutalises returnees through the Rafah Crossing to Gaza. It is Israel that still doesn't allow much of the basic necessities the population desperately needs. It is Israel that has evidently armed and backed, and still does, militias operating behind the so-called yellow line that have been ceaselessly stealing aid, obstructing INGOs and UN humanitarian aid trucks, smuggling drugs and other illegal commodities into Gaza, and kidnapping & killing civilians. This seems unnecessary for the likes of @RamizAlakbarov and his entourage because the whole world's problem is Hamas. Nothing more or less. The Interior Ministry, rightly so, released a statement expounding on the incident and denying these baseless allegations which were very likely first and foremost made under pressure to serve Israel's demands of vilifying Hamas and any other remaining governing authority that doesn't even have links to the political party. The ministry explains that, "The incident at the Jabalya warehouse involved a chaotic stampede and attempted theft, prompting an immediate response from a police force that rushed to the scene. The force intercepted contraband within the aid trucks, and an investigation into the prohibited items remains underway." Meanwhile, Israel continues to breach the ceasefire daily, reducing aid to a trickle, killing over 1000 Palestinians, carrying out frequent assassinations, blowing up entire neighbourhoods to smithereens, and occupying more land of Gaza. This doesn't appear to annoy the "Deputy Special Coordinator at @UNSCO_MEPP" much. More importantly, see for yourself. Here's one of his previous statements in which he equates a genocidal army that was killing 100s a day at the time and starving and sniping people to death with a group of fighters who were repelling them barefoot and chest-naked. I am appalled and horrified at how INGOs are implicitly manufacturing consent for more horrors in Gaza. They are inarguably a part of the problem, having been slow to contend with such adversarial situations, softening action and statements towards Israel's murderous, heinous acts in Gaza, and ignoring the targeting and killing of civil sectors, which are categorically falsely reduced to Hamas and other political factions in the beleaguered territory. This isn't neutrality or objectivity. This is Israel's propaganda passed on as INGOs and UN bodies' statements. This never helps the Palestinians but further fuels their plight. I am calling on the entire UN bodies, including @antonioguterres, to be genuinely transparent and caring towards Palestinians who are daily murdered and bombed by their backers.

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