A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said were “absurd” and “cynical” methods so long as military aid to Israel continues.
Amid warnings of looming famine five months into Israel’s campaign against the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, the U.S. military has carried out air drops of meals into Gaza and plans a temporary port for aid imports on its Mediterranean coast.
Air drops in particular “will do very little to alleviate hunger malnutrition, and do nothing to slow down famine,” Michael Fakhri, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, told reporters in Geneva.
He warned of chaos as starving people joust for supplies. As for the port, he said no one had asked for it. He called the port and air drops methods of “last resort”.
“The time when countries use air drops, and these maritime piers, is usually if not always, in situations when you want to deliver humanitarian aid into enemy territory,” he said.
air drops dont make a lot of sense when you can deliver food aid by ship via the Mediterranean… but the Navy probably wants to avoid another incident like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
LCACs have been used to deliver aid before, they can haul around 60 short tons onto the shore and just roll off the pallets.
Tavi crossed my mind.
Tavi crossed my mind.
That special rapporteur doesn’t know his head from his ass. Airdrops alone kept west Berlin fed and supplied for an entire year from 1948 until 1949 during the communist blockade of Berlin.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift
“The time when countries use air drops, and these maritime piers, is usually if not always, in situations when you want to deliver humanitarian aid into enemy territory,”
That should have spelled it out enough for those that don’t understand. Gaza is considered enemy territory as a direct result of Hamas actions. So the US is trying to help the innocent in a hostile environment.
They are methods of last resort.
Hamas could surrender. That would be first resort.
Or Israel could quit their shit. That’s the FIRST first resort
Israel could just quit holding a terrorist organization accountable for killing 1300 innocent people? That’s your solution? Where do you live?
… or Hamas could follow any international law, and stop doing terrorists attacks, stop actually targeting civilians indiscriminately and without warning or any pretext of a military objective. Like gtfo, Hamas is outmatched in every concievable way and their continued resort to war crimes and terrorism is the only reason anyone is dying in Gaza.
Surrender is the honorable thing here and it’s what Hamas would do if it gave a single fuck about any dead body in Gaza. The fact of the matter is there is nothing more that Hamas loves to see than dead Palestinian kids, and that’s why they aren’t surrendering, preying on your delicate sensibilities and basic instinct.
Hamas came into existence because of Israel’s gross international law violations, like the siege on Gaza, the apartheid wall, Jerusalem being ethnically cleansed, that sort of stuff.
Without Israeli aggression, Hamas would never be here.
Please provide citations for your arguments.
Here’s a few, it’s detailed within the Apartheid Reports by Multiple Human Rights Organizations
B’TSelem Report with quick Explainer
Which ones exactly are you disputing? So I can provide it for those.
We can wish for anything, but that doesn’t make it reality, or even realistically possible.
