Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
In addition to the denial of access to resources, the Case Management Taskforce (CMTF) recorded a significant number of denials of services. The reports indicate that most of these service denials were perpetrated by traditional humanitarian providers—International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), National Non-Governmental Organizations (NNGOs), and United Nations agencies. This is likely another dimension of the worsening food crisis, where service providers are forced to prioritize and, at times, refuse to provide services, potentially abusing their power.
The second most reported type of incident is physical assault....More than half of the perpetrators were reported to be intimate partners (spouses), followed by reports of physical violence committed by family members, non-family members, and, finally, several cases involving non-traditional humanitarian actors (e.g., contracted vendors for cash and voucher assistance).
Page 4, on "Emotional and Psychological Abuse," mentions abuses not only by aid workers but by Hamas as well, and not only to women but also to underage girls:
Girls [12-17] reported this type of abuse the most, followed by the denial of access to services and resources, and physical assault. The sources of abuse include family members (such as a brother, father, mother, or other immediate family member), spouses, non-family members, and even humanitarian workers and armed groups. The latter is linked to conflict-related experiences in public spaces and at checkpoints.
Trend 4: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)
A concerning trend of SEA by humanitarian workers has been noted, particularly involving staff at distribution points and vendors in cash and voucher programs. GBV AOR members are increasingly raising concerns about SEA involving non-traditional humanitarian personnel, as response options are limited due to the lack of effective law enforcement.
Insufficient and unreliable aid, distributed under conditions of insecurity that do not allow adequate targeting, expose vulnerable groups to violence, exploitation and abuse, trafficking and forced prostitution, including by aid workers. Specific risks observed in Gaza associated with aid include the presence of unofficial humanitarian workers without identification [in] mixed distribution lines for men and women. There are reports of individuals adopting harmful coping mechanisms, such as reducing food and liquid intake, to minimise such risks.
An April UN document warned of an "epidemic" of abuse by aid workers in Gaza, as I had reported:
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While stories about sexual abuse by aid workers in other areas of the world have gained publicity over the past year, for example in Sudan, Haiti, Bangladesh and Chad, there have been practically no articles about sexual abuse in Gaza by aid workers. I can only find one.
The UN itself explains why in the April report: it says that "Media attention to safeguarding incidents ...can also have an uncontrolled political manipulation."
In other words, the UN is doing everything it can to downplay and obfuscate the reports of sexual abuse by aid workers - because of politics. The UN wants to focus on its themes of Israel as an unparalleled evil actor, and anything that dilutes from that focus must be underplayed.
Do Gazan lives matter at all when Israel cannot be blamed? Based on how the UN tries to minimize this story while having entire organizations dedicated to uncovering and reporting on this exact topic, apparently the answer is no.
There are two scandals here: the abuse by the supposedly angelic humanitarian actors in Gaza like UNRWA, and the cover-up of that abuse by the UN and media.
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