"Q: In late May, the G.H.F. became the major provider of aid in Gaza. Hundreds of people have been killed at these sites. There are only four of them, as opposed to the four hundred you were talking about. When you said in your first answer that you can’t just turn the old U.N. system back on again—is that because some children now need more than food, or because of logistics?
A: My sense is that even getting the trucks to these four hundred sites would be chaotic now, because people are so desperate.
I meant primarily the medical stuff, but what you say about the desperation and the breakdown in social order is also true. I really don’t know how one would address that problem. But one thing I would say is that if people have the confidence that more aid is coming that’s much better. One of the reasons why you have problems with U.N. distribution is that no one knows when the next one is coming. If you’re doing this in Somalia, say, you enlist the community and you say, O.K., this is what we’re going to do.
This is the amount that’s coming. This is going to go to place A; this is going to go to place B. Everyone sort of knows what’s going on. Then you can enlist the communities to provide protection.
Q: But here the U.N. has no sense of what is even going to get across the border on a given day, much less how they’ll be allowed to operate?
A: Yes, in order to make that kind of system work, you need Israel to just basically say, O.K., go ahead. You work with these people. And of course it won’t be perfect, but that’s the basic modus operandi for working in this field.
Q: And my understanding is that there’s limited contact between Israel and the U.N. That also makes this very difficult. Is that your understanding as well?
A: Yeah, and they keep expelling U.N. people from Israel in addition to not talking to them."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-prevent-more-starvation-deaths-in-gaza
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