US Middle East envoy did not meet UN in Gaza due to US ‘propaganda agenda’
Witkoff’s failure to meet with any UN officials during the US Middle East envoy’s trip to Gaza on Friday belies his stated purpose for the trip, which he said was to get a clearer idea of the humanitarian situation there, Mohamad Elmasry, a professor in the Media Studies programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera.
“This is a classic case of selective exposure. Witkoff and [US ambassador to Israel Mike] Huckabee want to see what they want to see, because they have a [pro-Israeli] propaganda agenda to fulfil. They’re obviously not going to meet the UN or look at any of the UN sites because that would undermine their propaganda programme,” he said.
“We’ve seen Israel and the United States work very aggressively to undermine the UN and attack the UN over the past 22 months or so of this genocide.
“And so, if anything, I would have been shocked if Witkoff and Huckabee had visited UN sites or met with UN representatives, because it would have been out of character for their propaganda regimes.”
Ugh, another one on the bandwagon of deflection and mostly pointless PR air drops
Holland to participate in Gaza aid drops
Casper Veldkamp, Holland’s foreign minister, says on X that his country will participate in the “international coalition” currently airdropping supplies into Gaza after Israel decided to allow such missions last week.
The UN, major international humanitarian NGOs and Palestinians themselves say that aid airdrops are humiliating for starving people, ineffective and dangerous.
Several people have been injured by aid parcels falling from the sky already since this new round of airdrops began, and yesterday, we brought you testimony from a Palestinian journalist who said that people were forced to pick through rice mixed with sand after it was airdropped on the ground.
If this 'International Coalition' had any balls they would put a fleet of ships together and storm the Gaza beaches with aid. No need for an 'aid pier', plenty other ways to unload a ship at sea. Landing craft are old reliable tech. However Israel only allows limited air drops for PR photo ops. Not to actually help.
