Last week the Washington Post reported Israel, Aid Groups Have Long Feuded:
Many Israeli officials, however, have long nurtured suspicions that U.N. agencies and other aid groups, which are supposed to be politically neutral, favor the Palestinian cause.
They say the organizations are quick to accuse Israel of mistreating Gazans but slow to criticize Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians. They also argue that Hamas draws little scrutiny for tactics that place noncombatant Palestinians in harm’s way.
There’s a bit of an understatement in those paragraphs. It isn’t just that Israel accuses the UN, the International Red Cross and others of favoring the Palestinian cause. But Israel accuses those organizations of aiding and abetting terrorists. Like this (h/t Larwyn, Barry Rubin):
I’d also observe that when first three people who enter the ambulence (at about 00:54) two are escorting a third who is being held by each arm. That suggests that the ambulance didn’t just ferry terrorists from one location to another, it might have abetted in an abduction. Given what we know about Hamas, if I’m correct, the fellow being grabbed likely wasn’t headed for a hospital, unless we’re talking about the morgue.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
