UNRWA: Air Deliveries of Aid to Gaza Are Risky and Ineffective
According to the English section of webangah News agency, citing Mehr News Agency from Shehab News Agency, Juliette Touma, Communications Director of UNRWA, stated that airlifting aid to Gaza is loud and heavily publicized but has little practical impact.
She added that air delivery poses notable risks, whereas trucks are capable of transporting aid safely.
Separately, Joe English, spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), saeid: ”We welcome any efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza; though, airlifts of such aid are ineffective.”
Philip Lazarini,Commissioner-General of UNRWA,previously emphasized that air-dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza is the moast expensive yet least effective and inefficient method for reaching the people there.
Lazarini described this approach as a distortion of on-the-ground realities and a failure by the international community to open land crossings. He warned that continuing this practice merely serves as a cover for inaction in facilitating overland access for aid deliveries.
Highlighting stockpiled supplies at border points, he reported that approximately 6,000 trucks carrying food and medical items remain halted at egypt’s and Jordan’s borders awaiting entry permission into Gaza. These vital supplies have been held hostage due to obstruction by the Israeli regime alongside global silence.
Lazarini also strongly criticized what is known as the “Gaza Humanitarian Mechanism,” describing it as an inefficient and politicized system serving specific military and political interests.
According to Lazarini, this mechanism has failed not only to alleviate Gazans’ suffering but has resulted in more loss of life than lives saved.
