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Tons of Food Seen Scattered along the Road in Gaza
(Ynet News) Ron Ben-Yishai - As we drove along the Morag Corridor in Gaza that separates the Khan Yunis area from the Rafah area, what surprised me most were piles of white sacks and cardboard cartons scattered along the entire route. They were sacks of flour and food packages brought in as humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza. The deeper we went into Gaza, the larger the amounts of food thrown along the roadside became. In my estimate, there were dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of tons of flour sacks and cartons, containing mostly canned goods. All of them were intact and ready to eat. The image of food tossed along the roadside does not align with the photos of walking skeletons that Hamas has flooded across social media. The U.S. has set up the Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat in Israel to implement Trump's Gaza plan. The ultimate goal is that about two million Palestinians, most of Gaza's residents now in Hamas-controlled territory, will first move to temporary neighborhoods and later to permanent communities the Americans will build for them with Gulf-state funding. The American officers heading the Kiryat Gat command center believe it will not be necessary for the IDF to capture the Hamas-controlled area. Instead, they believe Hamas, with the mediators' agreement - Qatar, Turkey and Egypt - will agree to lay down its weapons and evacuate Gaza once it realizes it is isolated. No one should entertain illusions. This process will take a very long time. Inside territory under IDF control there are still pockets of resistance. In Rafah, about 100 terrorists were trapped inside tunnels after the IDF took control above ground. Fewer than 20 remain alive. About a third were killed by precise airstrikes using penetrating munitions and by explosions set by IDF combat engineers inside the tunnels. A third came to the surface to flee or fight to the last bullet. Most were killed, and a third surrendered. What especially embarrassed Hamas was that many of those who surrendered did so voluntarily to the anti-Hamas Abu Shabab militia.