UN recognizes that it’s terrorism keeping the crossings closed

UNRWA is finally waking up to the terrorism that is the Palestinians. Not that they’re calling it terrorism, of course. But they’re finally starting to place the blame for the closure of Gaza where it belongs: On Hamas and its ilk.

Hamas’s failure to secure the passages into the Gaza Strip drew criticism from an unlikely source on Thursday, John Ging, who heads the United Nation’s Relief and Works Agency’s operations in the Strip.

“It is very clear the responsibility lies with the Palestinians,” Ging told The Jerusalem Post by telephone from Gaza, on a day when Palestinians fired mortar shells at two of the three open passages into Gaza.

Such activity, he said, “directly impacts on the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians living in Gaza.”

[…]The focus has been on Kerem Shalom and Sufa, because they are easier to secure than Karni, and even there the Palestinians have continued to fire mortar shells, said Shlomo Dror, the spokesman for the coordinator of government activities in the territories.

On Thursday, 156 trucks with basic foods and animal feed passed through Sufa and Kerem Shalom, Dror said. It was an increase of some 50 trucks from the previous Thursday.

More trucks could have gone through Kerem Shalom on Thursday if it hadn’t been for the mortar attack, Dror said.

Ging said he was grateful that goods were able to go through Kerem Shalom and Sufa. “But it is not a sustainable solution,” he said. While the two passages have worked as a stopgap measure to ward off hunger, in the long run they would not suffice, he said.

To prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis, Hamas must secure the Karni crossing, Ging said.

“The focus has to be on the Palestinian side, and the Palestinian officials have to meet the security requirements,” he said.

Someone check the sky for pigs. He didn’t blame Israel at all for this one.