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Mission

Trivial edits to English Wikipedia and Wikipédia en français in order to maintain my access to the Wikipedia Library.

Flour massacre

My final time-waste: an addition to the Flour massacre page.

Rumours had circulated that an aid convoy would be passing along Al-Rashid Street, and "thousands" of people had gathered there before dawn to intercept it. The crowd "descended on the line of vehicles as it travelled in darkness northwards along the coastal road". The convoy — an Israeli initiative using trucks supplied by Palestinian businessmen — "was moving towards the city centre" on its way to a "destination in northern Gaza".

The plunder of aid convoys was a problem in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas war. The New York Times reported that "U.N. aid convoys carrying essential goods to northern Gaza have been looted, either by civilians fearing starvation or by organized gangs", while an Egyptian convoy driver said that "the trucks were often looted by Gazans because of the scarcity of aid in the enclave". On 20 February, a few days before the Al-Rashid Street incident, U.N. aid agencies announced that "food deliveries to war-torn northern Gaza had been suspended after looting attacks". Israel responded by organising a series of convoys itself, including the one on 29 February.

Copy-editors

Wikipedia seems to be increasingly infested with dubious "copy-editors" who do nothing but fiddle pointlessly and sometimes harmfully with pages that are already in good shape. (They never go near pages requiring serious work.) As productive editors continue to desert the site, these excrescences may soon have to content themselves with copy-editing each other's copy-edits.