26 October '10
GANSO is the Gaza NGO Safety Office, run by CARE International, to help NGOs in Gaza stay safe.
Their website describes incidents that jeopardize the safety of internationals in Gaza, both from IDF incursions and from militant actions (like mortars or rockets that fall short.)
Last February, there was an (apparently Islamist) attack on a Red Cross convoy in Gaza, and GANSO wrote a special report about the ramifications.
This report describes, incidentally, how much the NGOs in Gaza help Hamas, and it makes clear that this is considered a desirable political goal.
Here's how NGOs in Gaza think - in their own words:
The presence of the international community in the Gaza Strip is vital to the stability of the de-facto government; over 60% of the Gazan population is food insecure, according to UN sources, and unemployment surpasses 50%; thus, a majority of the population is either partially or entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. The assistance provided by the international community, particularly by UNRWA and WFP. eases the burden on the de-facto government of managing the needs of its impoverished and dispossessed population, enabling the de-facto government to achieve a modicum of legitimacy.
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Does it cross their tiny brains they are not helping the average Arab, just the Hamas leadership elite??
ReplyDeleteIt is clear that if 60% of Arabs who live in Gaza do not have a regular supply of food, where on earth is all the stuff trucked in, going and why aren't these ngo s doing something about it??