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been thinking about yusuf islam's cover of george harrison's 'the day the world gets 'round' that he recorded in 2009 for UNRWA, so that's my connection for #jukeboxFridayNight.
haven't drawn george for a bit, so i've illustrated this toot with two harrisons (one of which is based on a photo by pattie boyd that was taken on the isle of skye).
#catStevens #music #georgeHarrison #scotland #illustration #isleOfSkye #skye #art #unrwa #gaza #beatles
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4qQ0ykJO3sI

digital ink & pencil illustration of george harrison in the very early days of the beatles.
george looks askance at the viewer, eyes quite wide. behind him is a vertical rectangle shape in a deep french blue. a tomato red line sits around that & it's all on a midnight blue background.

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"Humanitarian" aid to Gaza?

(This is an English version of https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114875183196217904 - in NL).

Tuesday July 15, the Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp told journalists, in Brussels, after the EU meeting discussing sanctioning Israel that the amount of aid is already increasing following EU "pressure" (translated from https://nos.nl/artikel/2575144-veldkamp-spreekt-over-180-vrachtwagens-naar-gaza-egypte-ziet-nog-geen-verandering):
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For example, I saw that yesterday 180 trucks entered Gaza, and the day before 160".
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THAT IS, BY FAR, NOT ENOUGH!

The Israeli website https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ has meanwhile been updated with data through July 14. According to that website, the following number of trucks carrying aid entered Gaza:

July 13: 160 trucks (Veldkamp said 160)
July 14: 173 trucks (Veldkamp said 180)
(A few more details from that site in a minute in🧵2/2).

So Veldkamp exagerrated a bit. To clarify that the amount of aid is WAY to little, while essential stuff is fully missing (among other things, tents, water, gas for cooking), I've copied data from https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/, a site that (deliberately?) makes information hard to comprehend, and put that into two tables - see below (I may have made a few typo's, don't shoot the messenger).

Data merged by me in the aid-type "Other":
- Essential infrastructure equipment;
- UN and International organizations equipment;
- Shelter Equipment;
- Mixed Aid;
- Medical Equipment - for field hospital.

The truncation "MedS " means Medical Supplies.

The Israeli website does not mention tonnage _and_ the number of trucks for each type of aid. Therefore I've split each table in aid-type specified in tonnange, and the other types in number of trucks. You can find more info and a summary in the Alt text.

Tip: open the image below in a new browser tab. In particular on smartphones this eases zooming and scrolling.

@palestine

#EU #GazaDealEU #Veldkamp #Kallas #CasparVeldkamp #KajaKallas #Gaza #GazaHumanitarianAid #Uithongeren #GHF #UNRWA #UNRWAisRight #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight

Screenshot: 2 tables, all humanitarian aid sent to Gaza (in 2025) according to https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/.

The tables contain one row per day, with the exception of the bottom of the left table. There it is indicated (in a few rows) that from Mar 1 thru May 18 no aid was transported to Gaza at all.

I've made the table at the left the same height as the other one. That's why it starts on Jan 7.

Each table consists of the following colums:
- Date
- Food (ton)
- MedS (ton)
- Water (ton)
- Fuel (aantal trucks)
- Gas (trucks)
- Other (trucks)

I can't repeat all data here, so here's a summary (on Fridays and Saturdays usually no aid, or just a bit, is sent; amounts mentioned are rough average per day estimates made by me):

Jan 7 - Jan 18: limited emaid but all types. Approx. 3500 tons food per day. "Other": tens of trucks each day.

Jan 19 - Feb 28: ceasefire. Lots of aid, all types. Food > 10,000 tons/day. Other: > 100 trucks/day.

Mar 1 - May 18: no aid at all.

May 19 - Jul 8: very little aid. Food: ~ 2000 ton/day. NONE: water, gas, fuel. At the start of the period: 2 gas trucks, a few ten's of trucks carrying "Other". May 28 - Jun 2: no MedS. Before and after that sub period: ~ 20 ton MedS per day.

Jul 9 -14: increasing a bit more food (Jul 14: 4270 ton) and overall 7 fuel trucks. Jul 11-14: no MedS. No other aid.

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Finally *A BIT MORE AID" to Gaza - but still very insufficient (and too late for many). 🧵1/2

(This is an English version of https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114954326324947605).

The Israëli website https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ has had data added through July 28 (see also 🧵2/2).

I don't know whether Israel lies about those numbers, and neither do I know how much aid actually reaches Gazans who need it most.

In my previous toot about this (in Dutch,
https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114936108579273304) the tables became too long and the readability could be improved upon.

Therefore you can find a table below where I've condensed the data into the average per day, in one week periods (each week ends on Saturday - a day when little or no aid is transported into Gaza).

Note: questions, remarks and suggestions are welcome!

To reduce rounding errors resulting from dividing by 7 (days/week) I'm now using tons instead of the number of trucks for fuel and gas. In the cases where https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ does not provide tonnages for them, I've multiplied the number of fuel trucks by 35 and gas by 23 to obtain a estimate of the tonnage.

Shortcuts used in the tables:

Other =
- Essential infrastructure equipment
- UN and International organizations equipment
- Shelter Equipment
- Mixed Aid
- Medical Equipment - for field hospital.

MedS = Medical Supplies.

The letter 'a' after each date implies average (this way I can destinguish between averages and sums in my tables, see also 🧵2/2). Note that the last week is incomplete (the Israeli website is not updated on a daily basis and is a couple of days behind).

#EU #GazaDealEU #Veldkamp #Kallas #CasparVeldkamp #KajaKallas #Gaza #GazaHumanitarianAid #GHF #UNRWA #UNRWAisRight #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Uithongeren #Ondervoeding #Starvation #Malnutrition #Famine

Table (for 2025).

Jan. 1 through 28: increasing amounts of food aid, apart from all other categories (MedS, H2O, Fuel, Gas, "Other"). For these three weeks resp. on average 97, 155 and 199 trucks per day.

Jan. 19 through March 1: on average 600 trucks per day (see the next table: Israel seems to have restricted the number of aid trucks at 4,200 per week). On average, approx. 8000 tons of food aid PER DAY was allowed into Gaza.

March 2 through May 17: no aid at all went to Gaza.

May 18 through July 12: very little aid. A lot less than 100 trucks per day on average (my estimate: approx. 50 on average). Food aid average per day varies between 877 and 1732 tons, most (if not all) "distributed" by the GHF.

July 13 through 19: a slight increase. On average per day 115 trucks, part of them transporting approx. 2304 tons of food.

July 20 through 26: extremely little aid. On average per day 33 trucks, part of them transporting approx. 481 tons of food.

July 27 and 28 juli: not enough, but more aid. For the first time since March 1 some clean water (H2O in the table). On average per day 222 trucks, part of them transporting approx. 3784 tons of food.

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ISRAËL BELAZERT EU

Dinsdag 15 juli zei Caspar Veldkamp (https://nos.nl/artikel/2575144-veldkamp-spreekt-over-180-vrachtwagens-naar-gaza-egypte-ziet-nog-geen-verandering):
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"Ik zie bijvoorbeeld dat er gisteren 180 vrachtauto's gingen en eergisteren 160", zei Veldkamp vanmorgen tegen journalisten in Brussel.
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De Israëlische site https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ is vandaag bijgewerkt t/m 21 juli. Volgens die site ging het om:

13 juli: 160 vrachtauto's (Veldkamp:160)
14 juli: 173 vrachtauto's (Veldkamp:180)
15 juli: 164 vrachtauto's
16 juli: 132 vrachtauto's
17 juli: 175 vrachtauto's
18 juli: 0 vrachtauto's
19 juli: 0 vrachtauto's
20 juli: 19 vrachtauto's
21 juli: 19 vrachtauto's (*)

Details in de screenshot hieronder. (*) Opmerkelijk: de cijfers van 20 en 21 juli zijn identiek volgens https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ (mogelijk klopt dit niet en wordt dit later gecorrigeerd).

Veldkamp en Kaja Kallas zaten er op 15 juli al naast - en 180 vrachtauto's werd zelfs nooit gehaald. Naast dat (volgens alle hulporganisaties) de meeste van die vrachtauto's de Gazanen überhaupt niet bereiken.

En NOG STEEDS GEEN WATER - nadat Israël afgelopen maandag, vanuit gevechtsvliegtuigen, de grootste waterontziltingsinstallatie in noord Gaza kapot schoot (zie https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114896206636249217).

In https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114904038512437595 is in twee screenshots goed te zien hoe weinig hulp er, sinds de periode van staakt-het-vuren, van Israël naar Gaza gaat (bijgewerkt t/m 16 juli).

Ten slotte, uit https://www.timesofisrael.com/saar-hails-diplomatic-victory-as-eu-holds-off-on-sanctioning-israel-over-gaza-war/:
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Sa’ar hails ‘diplomatic victory’ as EU holds off on sanctioning Israel over Gaza war
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Ze lachen ons uit.

JE KUNT MET ISRAËL GEEN AFSPRAKEN
MAKEN ZONDER *EERST* KEIHARDE
SANCTIES OP TE LEGGEN!

#EU #GazaDealEU #Veldkamp #Kallas #CasparVeldkamp #KajaKallas #Gaza #GazaHumanitarianAid #Uithongeren #GHF #UNRWA #UNRWAisRight #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight

Tabel met gegevens overgenomen uit https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ van de periode 8 t/m 16 juli.

Te zien is dat er meer brandstof van Israël naar Gaza is gegaan, en voor het eerst (sinds maanden, niet te zien in de tabel) weer "shelter equipment).

Vrachtauto's met VOEDSEL (naar de controversiële GHF):

8 juli: 140
9 juli: 92
10 juli: 119
11 en 12 juli: 0
13 juli: 159
14 juli: 171
15 juli: 145
16 juli: 113
17 juli: 162
18 en 19 juli: 0
20 juli: 6
21 juli: 6

(*) Opmerkelijk: de cijfers van 20 en 21 juli zijn identiek volgens https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ (mogelijk klopt dit niet en wordt dit later gecorrigeerd).

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