Friday, July 26, 2024
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Claim: Netanyahu said Israel has “enabled more than 40,000 aid trucks to enter Gaza” adding that it amounts to “more than 3,000 calories for every man, women, and child in Gaza.”Fact: More than a dozen aid agencies working in the territory have said that Israel’s statistics on truck entries “fail to address several vital components necessary for an effective operational response”.“The mere entry of trucks into Gaza does not guarantee that the supplies reach the intended recipients due to safety and security reasons,” they said, adding that “reported numbers do not differentiate between types of cargo, often mixing commercial goods with critical humanitarian aid, which obscures the real picture of assistance reaching those in crisis.”
AP similarly said:
Israel initially imposed a complete siege on Gaza in the early days of the war and, under U.S. pressure, gradually eased it to allow the entry of food and humanitarian supplies. While Israel says it allows hundreds of truckloads of goods to enter Gaza each day, the United Nations and aid groups say they are often unable to reach it or distribute it.
There is nothing that CNN and AP are saying that contradicts Netanyahu's facts. They are saying Israel should do more to ensure the trucks reach the people they are intended for, but they do not dispute the 40,000 figure.
But this is far worse than merely moving the goalposts. Netanyahu preceded this statement by saying "The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has shamefully accused Israel of deliberately starving the people of Gaza. This is utter complete nonsense. It’s a complete fabrication. " Netanyahu was responding to the false accusation of deliberate starvation. The ultimate distribution of the aid is not the point of his statement - it was to refute the libel that Israel is intentionally starving Gaza. Bringing in 40,000 trucks is a huge logistical effort, and it proves Israel doesn't have a policy of deliberate starvation.
CNN's and AP's omission of that context is deliberate and malicious.
The Guardian did quote the fuller context, but then said:
According to data from the UN, 28,018 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the war began. Routes into the territory no longer include the Rafah crossing, which Israeli forces stormed in early May, largely curtailing the aid supply into southern areas.
Since then, just 2,835 trucks have entered through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south and Erez in the north – delivering a tiny fraction of the aid needed.
The Guardian ignored what even the UN admits in its dashboard om statistics since May 6: "Dashboard data includes partial cargo from INGOs, Red Cross and other UN agencies, and excludes Commercial actors. " So UN figures are incomplete, and they admit it. COGAT's statistics are complete and comprehensive, and show that over 15,000 trucks have entered since May, not less than 3,000. (This accounts for the 12,000 difference between the two numbers.)
The Guardian's "facts" are the ones that are wrong, not Netanyahu's.
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