Aid to drop air is an act of despair that will not end the hunger

Israel suggested that allow air drops of assistance in Gaza. This is a gesture to the Allies who publish strong statements, accusing Israel of hunger in gas.

The latest warnings on Friday, July 25 from Britain, France and Germany, were Stark.

“We urge the Israeli government to immediately eliminate the restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently allow the UN and the humanitarian NGOs to do their work in order to take action against starvation. Israel must observe their obligations under international humanitarian law.”

Israel continues to insist that it does not set restrictions on the trucks of assistance entering Gaza, a statement not accepted by close allies or the organization of the United Nations and other agencies active in gas.

In other wars, I have seen the help of being dropped from both the plane and near the ground as it landed.

This is a rough process that will not in itself do much to end the hunger in the gas. Just termination of fire and unlimited, long -term help surgery can do so.

In Iraqi Kurdistan, after the Gulf War in 1991, the United States, the United Kingdom and others released help from the C-130 transport aircraft, mainly army rations, sleeping bags and unnecessary winter uniforms up to tens of thousands living outdoors from the mountains. I flew with them and watched the British and American pilots releasing the rear load ramps of the aircraft thousands of feet over the people who needed it.

It was welcome. But a few days later, when I was able to reach the camps in the mountains, I saw young men run into the mining fields to get help that landed there. Some were killed and crippled in explosions. I saw families killed when heavy pallets fell on their tents.

When Motat was besieged during the 1993 war in Bosnia, I saw pallets from US military “dishes ready to eat”, lowered from high altitude, scattered from the whole eastern country of the city, which was constantly firing. Some aid pallets crashed through roofs that were somehow not destroyed by artillery attacks.

Air aid is an act of despair. It can also look good on television and spread a factor of feeling that something is finally done.

Professionals involved in assistance operations consider the aid to drop air as a last resort. They use it when any other access is impossible. This is not the case in gas. A short driving north is Ashdod, the modern container port of Israel. A few more hours is the Jordan border, which is used regularly as a delivery line for gas assistance.

The elimination of help provides very little. Even large transport aircraft do not carry as much as a truck convoy.

Pallets parachute They often land away from the people who need it. Israel has forced hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinian civilians in a tiny area on the south coast of Gaza. Most of them live in densely packed tents. It is unclear if there is even an open space that they seek to strive for.

Each pallet will now be led by desperate men who are trying to get food for their families and from criminal elements that will want to sell it with profits.