The New York Times reported on the Toronto transit strike, Iran vs. Barbie, and a dispute about Champagne.The Times even reported that Khaled Meshaal acknowledged that a truce with Israel is nothing more than a “tactic.” (As if you would expect anything else from a group that increases terror when it says its asking for peace.)
In the course of the report, the AP observes that:
The Egyptian deal would also include a prisoner swap and the reopening of Gaza’s border crossings. The territory has been virtually sealed by Israel and Egypt since Hamas violently seized control from the rival Palestinian faction Fatah last June.
Somehow the Times missed that Hamas disrupts fuel supplies to Gaza:
Hamas militiamen in the Gaza Strip on Sunday attacked fuel trucks headed toward the Nahal Oz border crossing, forcing them to turn back, sources in the Palestinian Petroleum Authority said.The fuel was supposed to go to the UN Relief and Works Agency [UNRWA] and hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the sources said.
“Dozens of Hamas militiamen hurled stones and opened fire at the trucks,” the sources added. “The trucks were on their way to receive fuel supplied by Israel. The drivers were forced to turn back. Some of them had their windshields smashed.”
The Palestinian Petroleum Authority reached an agreement with Israel over the weekend to receive 250,000 liters of fuel after UNRWA complained that it did not have enough fuel to distribute food aid to more than 500,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
(via memeorandum)
Somehow the Times neglected to report that “Hamas kept the border ‘virtually sealed.'”
(My complaint isn’t just with the NY Times. The Washington Post didn’t seem to carry the story either.)
Then again I suppose that the Times is governed by a maxim of “All the news that UNRWA sees fit to print.”
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
