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IDF Officer Says Humanitarian Convoys Enter Gaza Daily, Denies Troops Use Gazans as Human Shields
(Times of Israel) Lazar Berman - "The reports that the Gazan population doesn't receive food and all sorts of things are simply not true," said Lt.-Col. Dori, 47, the operations officer of the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, which recently concluded an operation in Bureij in central Gaza. "With my own eyes, I saw humanitarian convoys go in almost every day," with the exception of days when operational reasons precluded this. "But the next day, the amount is made up. If there is any reason food doesn't reach civilians, it's because of Hamas looters that don't allow their civilians to reach it or don't distribute it." He said he saw Hamas gunmen steal aid: "They wait for trucks to come, raid them and loot them." Dori also denied allegations that IDF troops were using Gazans as human shields during operations. "Unequivocally, no," Dori said. "We didn't do that, we didn't see that, we certainly didn't instruct anyone to do that. I didn't come across anything like that or hear about anything like that."