Aid organizations who have politicized the conflict are complaining Israel is politicizing the conflict ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, March 17, 2025

Aid organizations who have politicized the conflict are complaining Israel is politicizing the conflict

The first two paragraphs of this Washington Post report from Saturday are simply amazing:

Israel will begin implementing sweeping new visa and registration rules for international aid organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, introducing restrictions that humanitarian groups say would politicize their work, put local and international staff at risk and undermine relief efforts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The measures, which Israel announced this week, give officials broad authority to reject the registration of nongovernmental organizations providing assistance to Palestinians using a far-reaching set of guidelines. Among the criteria: whether an NGO or its employees have ever called for a boycott of Israel, denied its existence “as a Jewish and democratic state,” or expressed support for legal proceedings against Israeli citizens in international courts for acts carried out while serving in the military or any security agency.

Virtually every aid agency insists that its mission is non-political. So when Israel is asking them whether they are adhering to their own standards, if they weren't political, they should be happy to be transparent about their positions and their standards for hiring workers who are also unbiased.

It isn't Israel that is politicizing their work - Israel is trying to only work with NGOs who haven't taken political positions against Israel, as they claim they do!

The article goes on to say that "Israel has also repeated, without evidence, its long-standing charges — denied by aid agencies — that the assistance going to Gaza is being diverted to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules the enclave."

There are numerous videos and photos showing that theft.

Hamas members beat civilians and steal the humanitarian aid they received from international organizations—facilitated by Israel.

Hamas puts its terrorist goals over Gazans' needs. pic.twitter.com/lFuaWU0bdx
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 9, 2023

No one can deny that goods that entered Gaza and should be distributed for free, like baby formula, diapers and flour, are being sold in the markets at high prices. Earlier in the war Hamas claimed to send out gangs to "confiscate" goods being sold for high prices where they claimed they then sold for reasonable prices - but shouldn't the goods have been given away to begin with?