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Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/board-of-peace-gaza-hamas-israel-unrwa-7ccae53c
The Board of Peace Speaks Up about Hamas
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Hamas has been drumming up talk of "engineered starvation" in Gaza again. But this time, the new Board of Peace has responded. "Since the ceasefire last October, the Board of Peace has SIGNIFICANTLY scaled up support for the people of Gaza," the organization wrote Thursday. "Food aid is reaching 3 times more people than before." Aid trucks are no longer diverted from reaching their destinations en masse, and child malnutrition cases have plummeted. "The next critical step in Gaza's recovery," the Board added, is "finalizing the process by which Hamas decommissions its weapons and allows for the transition to a new government that will lead the redevelopment of this war-torn region." But Hamas is refusing to disarm. "The 'flotilla' heading to Gaza is the performative love-boat activism of people who know nothing of and care even less for the condition of Gazans. For those actually wanting to help Gaza, here is a suggestion: use whatever influence you have to maintain the pressure on Hamas so they fulfill their obligations to pave the way forward for the communities they destroyed." Amid the Iran war, Hamas has avoided scrutiny for blowing past the Board of Peace's April 14 deadline to accept its disarmament plan. This is a continuing breach of the ceasefire by Hamas, which means Israel will have to continue holding territory and using force to keep the terrorists off balance. Israel won't let Hamas rebuild the jihadist fief next door. Now the Board of Peace won't give Hamas its usual free lane in the propaganda war either.