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Peter Brown Jul 28, 2025

@bovine3dom @partim yes getting the vehicle against tax is another story. But slipping it under the safety regulations is something on a different level. All European vehicles are subject to the same crash testing, with no exceptions over 1.5 tons.
Which makes them inherently safer for both for the passengers and other road users.

In the USA, there’s no crumple zone in 1.5 ton trucks and no rollover prevention. Passengers have no protection whatsoever
#DeathTraps

"Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said he had witnessed extreme hunger on the brief trip, his first into Gaza this year, and described Israeli blocks on food and medical shipments as a 'sentence' for starving Palestinians."

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #military #food #hunger #DeathTraps
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/cardinal-pizzaballa-gaza-visit-israel-criticism

"Israel’s government is pursuing an 'unacceptable and morally unjustifiable' policy in Gaza, the Catholic Latin patriarch of Jerusalem has said after visiting a church in the territory that was attacked by Israeli forces last week and meeting survivors."

~ Emma Graham-Harrison

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #military #food #hunger #DeathTraps
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Cardinal calls Israel’s policy in Gaza ‘morally unjustifiable’ after visit

Pierbattista Pizzaballa condemns blocks on food and warns against plans to force Palestinians to leave territory

The Guardian

"An angry chorus of senior figures, among them the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and a senior Catholic cleric, expressed on Tuesday a growing sense of global horror over Israel’s actions.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #military #food #hunger #DeathTraps
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israel-bombs-who-facilities-in-gaza-as-global-outcry-grows

"Israel is facing intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian efforts, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the 'last lifelines keeping people alive [in the strip] are collapsing'."

~ Peter Beaumont

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #military #food #hunger #DeathTraps
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Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-Balah

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/food-aid-gaza-deaths-visual-story-ghf-israel

The Guardian offers a grim visual examination of the militarized aid distribution centers in Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which are said to be "death traps" leading hungry people desperate for food to death at the hands of the Israeli army.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #military #food #hunger #DeathTraps
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Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

The Guardian