Thursday, May 15, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
UN agencies have insisted they will not co-operate with the plan - which is in line with one previously approved by Israel's government - saying it contradicted fundamental humanitarian principles.A spokesperson for the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) accused Israel of seeking to use "food and fuel as leverage, as part of a military strategy"."All aid would be channelled through a handful of militarised hubs," Olga Cherevko told BBC Verify."That kind of arrangement would cut off vast areas of Gaza – particularly the most vulnerable, who can't move easily, or are otherwise marginalised – from any help at all."Meanwhile, Bushra Khalidi of Oxfam described the new plan as a "farce"."No logistical solution is going to address Israel's strategy of forcible displacement and using starvation as a weapon of war. Lift the siege, open the crossings and let us do our job."
Khalidi has accused Israel is using starvation as a weapon in Gaza - in October 2023.
OCHA has parroted false Hamas casualty statistics as factual for 19 months.
For these NGOs, Israel is declared guilty first, and the facts are twisted later to justify it.
What is clear is that they prioritize demonizing Israel over supporting feeding Gazans. While Israel is spending millions setting up secure food distribution centers, and creating a huge logistics infrastructure from scratch in a scale that has little precedent in history, organizations like Oxfam and the UN are more interested in criticizing Israel than in helping it feed Gazans in a way that would marginalize Hamas.
Their criticisms are even more hollow when you read the description of how the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation plans to feed Gazans.
It is not a half-baked plan - it includes multiple layers of logistics, specific distribution and cost goals, extensive audit systems, direct responses to early criticisms, flexibility in responding to new circumstances, and plans to scale and expand services as quickly as possible. The leaders of GHF have extensive experience in large humanitarian missions.
The NGOs airily dismiss the plan without even reading it. And they definitely don't want you to read it yourself, because that would expose their hate - and their indifference to suffering in Gaza. If Israel supports it, they must oppose it, Gazans be damned.
This is part of a pattern in how Israel is judged and reported on. Israel's actions are compared to an impossible standard and it is always criticized for falling short of arbitrary and artificial metrics. At the very same time, terror groups like Hamas who literally celebrate raping Jewish women and murdering children are given the benefit of the doubt, with their denials of stealing aid and their false accusations of Israel targeting women and children given deference even after hard proof shows that they are lying.
None of these NGOs can adequately explain why Israel, accused of genocide and weaponizing starvation, would want to work so hard on a plan to provide food to Gaza civilians. Israel's assertion that it does not want to hurt Gazans but wants to stop Hamas from profiting off the aid is consistent with the facts, yet it is dismissed in favor of a conspiracy theory where Israel is only pretending to want to build multiple distribution hubs to provide millions of meals.
Similarly, Israel said in March when it cut off food that there was enough food in Gaza until the end of May. (The WFP indicated it would last to July.) Israel is acting to ensure that there is no crisis. It never wanted to starve Gaza.
In many ways, the NGOs criticism of Israel's attempts to control aid distribution show that they are really on Hamas' side.
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