US confirms plan for private firms to deliver Gaza aid despite UN alarm [View all]
Source: BBC
The US has confirmed that a new system for providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza through private companies is being prepared, as Israel's blockade continues for a third month.
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said "distribution centres" protected by security contractors would provide food and other supplies to over a million people initially, as part of an effort to prevent Hamas stealing aid.
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"We will not participate," the spokesman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke, told the BBC in Geneva, "only in efforts that are in line with our principles".
He added: "There is no reason to put in place a system that is at odds with the DNA of any principled humanitarian organisation."
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Aid, brought to you by the mercenaries who fucked up in Iraq. With profit, and therefore at a higher cost (to someone - US taxpayers, World Central Kitchen? Who knows?) And no doubt by thugs who will treat the inhabitants like shit.
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