Gaza – Translated by Safa
A news report stated that humanitarian aid to Gaza has always been a terrible game mastered by the international community, to the point that aid and death have become intertwined.
A report by the Middle East Monitor news website, as translated by the Safa news agency, stated that the suffering of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was not limited to confronting Israeli political violence while being forced to adhere to the condition of neutrality. Rather, Israel, in order to ensure further restrictions on the supply of humanitarian aid and the provision of services, prevented relief organizations from working in Gaza and required them to provide personal data and political affiliations of their employees.
In the Israeli narrative, humanitarian aid is classified as terrorism, while in the international narrative, humanitarian aid is considered an escape from political accountability.
The Israeli Supreme Court recently suspended the occupation government’s ban on 37 non-governmental organizations, although its decision stated that this was “a temporary measure and without taking any position,” while the case is still under consideration.
Athena Ryborum, executive director of AIDA, was quoted as saying that the court’s decision was “a step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.”
The report indicated that these statements do not even reflect the Palestinian reality of hunger and deprivation; rather, they reflect only the bureaucracy of colonial violence and international indifference towards intervention.
Meanwhile, since Israel and the United States began their strikes on Iran, humanitarian aid has once again become conditional on security rhetoric, as Israel closed the border crossings, and the Palestinians faced another round of being denied humanitarian aid. But yesterday, Israel announced that it would allow a “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
While Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from severe hunger, it is claimed that gradual humanitarian aid will solve the hunger problem. The United Nations advises reopening the border crossings immediately and allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, but these statements are not taken seriously, even by the organization itself.
The report stated: “The Palestinian people are living on the brink of a new wave of political violence that is suppressing humanitarian aid. Because humanitarian aid is not prioritized and constitutes a safe haven for political actors, why is the falsity of this model not exposed? The concept of aid has always been merely a temporary relief of suffering, but this model ignores the continuation of war, political violence, and colonialism. It even ignores genocide and the methods that Israel uses to continue exterminating Palestinians with the same level of scrutiny that the international community allows for violations of codified international law, such as forced displacement.”
The report stated: “If the international community has the capacity for colonialism, genocide, and war, how can it not have the capacity to provide humanitarian aid? Political rhetoric will try to convince public opinion that attention is alternating between urgent and necessary issues, and that Iran now occupies the priority, but decades of occupation are enough to refute the prevailing narratives.”
He added, “The Palestinians themselves are capable of refuting these political narratives, but they are deprived of the necessary space to do so, due to the dynamics of political violence and the failure of the humanitarian model.”humanitarian aid
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