Humanitarian catastrophe in the gas sector: “This is not about competition”

Jerusalem pelvis | A number of non -governmental organizations that work in the gas make serious accusations against gas -humanitarian fund (GHF), supported by Israel in an open letter and require the closure of distribution points. Anyone who participates in their operations risks violating international law, according to NGOs. There was also a criticism of demand. The pelvis talked with Riad Proman, an officer of the Middle East for signing the NGO Medico International.

Taz: Mr. Otman, you are talking about the “militarization of help” in a letter. What do you mean by this?

Riad Otman: The GAZ Humanitarian Fund works with the Israeli army and private safe companies in the United States. She performs her activities under the supervision of the Israeli military. Thus, this is not a neutral, humanitarian actor, and not the transport fund, which in close cooperation with one of the conflict parties provides “help” in several places.

TAZ: Did the Israeli military also not controlled or accompanied assistance from other assistance organizations?

Otman: No, they were not accompanied by the military. There was such a review Deconus What is often found in military areas. This means that the army should coordinate routes on which auxiliary convoys, undoubtedly, can pass. This is something different from record biometric data from those who are looking for help, for example, as GHF announced.

TAZ: You also write this in your letter. But the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says that he does not do it now. That he does not use biometria and there are no scanners of the eyes at the entrance to the distribution points.

Otman: But this was intended for them to use them. I really did not see this on the video. However, it becomes clear from the records that the principles of humanitarian aid are completely ignored. This is mainly the race, as in the film “Hunger Games”, where the strongest and fastest can get something with the help. It would usually be distributed in accordance with the needs, in the frame, which is most worthy. And this is clearly not so.

TAZ: In the letter, they also complain that on the way to these distribution points, many people are killed by shots. According to eyewitnesses, shots often come from the Israeli army. Can GHF do something for this?

Otman: GHF agreed to spend assistance under the control of the army at four points of distribution in gas. People are forced to cover the path that can be life -threatening. The usual procedure will be that assistance is provided to people, as it was when there were 400 distribution points in the former system. Now we see potential complicity in the fact that people should forcefully move to the rural strip.

TAZ: You mention international law in a letter. But this regulates armed conflicts between states.

Otman: Geneva Convention (Agreement of humanitarian international law; editor editor) It also regulates conflicts between state and non -state entities. The Roman Statute and the Velkermurd Convention are also applied to the context in gas. If an organization or fund demonstrates that they cooperated with the Israeli army, then, of course, this is possible assistance. In the end, this should be decided by the courts, not us, it is clear. But the initial suspicion is obvious.

TAZ: What are your accusations in specific terms?

Otman: The fact that people and companies that participate in these operations provide assistance to war crimes. Instrumentalization of humanitarian aid for political or military purposes. That they participate in starvation as a means of war – and de -factor in the refusal to help humanitarian assistance. And, allowing the Israeli state to understand that there is humanitarian assistance in Gaza. Currently, there is no humanitarian aid in accordance with international standards.

Taz: However, these centers provide some help. Their research is dangerous. And, of course, it arrives too little in gas, but still something. Under current circumstances, is it not irresponsible to demand closing?

Otman: No, I find it irresponsible that the Israeli government is allowed to perform such fractions. Because it should not be like that. This is done passive, and partially, also the active support of such states as the United States, such as the Federal Republic of Germany. There are violations of legal breaks that can go through the Israeli government. This is irresponsible.

TAZ: Other assistance organizations are unlikely to work since then a new auxiliary system was used. Could you also extract your criticism that competitors should be made out of actions?

Otman: Anyone who claims something like this should have proved that GHF works with the same means that had previously won from other organizations. This is not about competition. Medico International does not have less money from the GAZ -Humanitarian Fund. This does not affect us financially. As for us, the blockade of the Israeli government and, in principle, this fog consists in the fact that humanitarian aid is provided through this fund.

TAZ: What would you like to achieve with the letter at the end? Is it just the closure of GHF centers?

Otman: We want the installed auxiliary system to be repaired by Israel for several months. That humanitarian access to the gas is freely and approved to the appropriate extent. This humanitarian assistance is approved as necessary and approved in accordance with the coordinated international standards. But there is no GFA, the Israeli army does not.

TAZ: What do you think that the letter will achieve anything?

Otman: The blockade also existed when international organizations worked. Humanitarian access to the gas should be open, regardless of whether the GAZ of the Humanitarian Fund continues to work. We are concerned about two central moments: to ensure compliance with humanitarian assistance in accordance with international standards in accordance with the needs of the Palestinian population and warn about possible participation in serious crimes. For our government, this is a political decision to allow Israel to go through, abandon the assistance in gas and shoot several hundred people alone in connection with the distribution of GHF. And this is a political failure.