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moniss

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2. Maybe if you read further
Tue Sep 10, 2024, 11:19 AM
Sep 2024

on the matter you'd find that the fuel was for the vehicles used to go from one vaccination site to another so having vaccines in the convoy was never an issue or claimed. But most people understand that without fuel vehicles can't run and go place to place. So the article you linked makes reference to lack of fuel being one of the things that was an "obstacle" to smooth operation. Just because the program began, which nobody ever said it didn't, does not mean that as many were vaccinated as would have been if not for the purposeful interference with the convoy and the damage inflicted to the vehicles by the bulldozers.

But it follows a pattern of the IDF making claims that aid is flowing unfettered when in fact previously approved moves are held at checkpoints for long periods or are turned away. This convoy was pre-authorized and I suspect the fact that it was UNRWA was motivation enough for people to screw around with it.

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