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To: Les H who wrote (45836)	5/11/2025 7:50:21 AM
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Israel Is Creating a Power Vacuum in Gaza by Backing Armed Looters — and Killing Anyone Who Tries to Stop Them May 10, 2025 Our reporting shows that dismantling these components of Gaza’s civil services has been a key objective of Israel’s genocide. On the other side of that process, the Israeli army has either encouraged or turned a blind eye to armed gangs that have intermittently looted aid trucks, marketplaces, and warehouses in Gaza throughout the past 18 months of war. But today, growing evidence from local reports shows that Israel is actively fomenting and possibly arming them as they loot scarce food resources — and then targets and kills those who attempt to stop the robberies. Some of those killed by Israel are community volunteers, according to local sources, while many others are police officers and security personnel in the civilian branch of Gaza’s government. The most recent of these attacks came just last week when Israeli airstrikes killed a number of police officers and civilians who were protecting markets and food warehouses in Gaza City. One police officer, killed on May 2 while on duty in the al-Nasr area of Gaza City, was identified as As’ad Yahya Kafarneh. According to one family member, Kafarneh was in charge of a police patrol leading efforts to “confront gangs collaborating with the Israeli occupation, which work to rob food storage facilities.” According to several reports from eyewitnesses and local journalists, compiled in a thread by Drop Site News, many of these gangs seem to be doing the looting with Israeli air support from quadcopter drones, with some eyewitnesses saying that it is part of a “coordinated effort to spread insecurity” in Gaza. Drop Site contributor Abubaker Abed also cited local reports indicating the existence of undercover Israeli operatives posing as Gazans who supply weapons and arm local gangs to carry out robberies. “The timing of their crimes is exactly in line with the appearance of warplanes in the sky,” Abed added. “These acts are not spontaneous,” Ismail Thawabta, the head of the Government Media Office in Gaza, told Mondoweiss in a statement on Sunday. “They are not the result of hunger or necessity, as is being said, but are backed by malicious intentions aiming to sow chaos and damage the social fabric.” Thawabta added that some of the looting groups are “directly acting on the directives of Israeli forces.” They are armed and “semi-organized,” he said, and “some of the known names have been brought before the law and neutralized.” Thawabta asserted that security forces in Gaza are working to uncover these networks “with decisiveness and responsibility,” vowing to prevent “any security vacuum that could be exploited.” scheerpost.com The pattern of the Israeli military and police empowering strongarm groups to terrorize and loot Palestinians is a normal daily occurrence in the West Bank. Many of the members of those groups are also members of the IDF. The use of air cover to support the looters testify to the ongoing presence of Palestinian snipers in Gaza.