Human rights advocates argue that airdrops and maritime routes are an insufficient substitute to aid delivery by land.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17490070

humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”

  • juicy@lemmy.todayEnglish
    82·
    8 months ago

    The pier is just more theater like these air drops. In 2 months when the pier is ready for use, thousands will have already died of starvation.