“It is not humanitarian aid,” denounces Elsa Softic (international first emergency) after the drop in aid on Gaza.

ByMuhammad

Elsa Softic, assistant director of operations with an international emergency, expressed this deep discomfort on France on Thursday on France Info in the face of Air Air Largages on Gaza. “It’s very difficult to say that, but there are other ways to get the aid to come in,” she said, stressing the dilemma facing NGOs.

According to her, the 40 tonnes lacked recently are far from meeting immense needs on site. “It’s nothing. It’s not up to it,” she insists. Worse, the conditions for these drops are sometimes chaotic. “Sometimes it falls at sea, sometimes on people. It is humiliating for the population.”

Elsa Softic denounces a more symbolic operation than effective: “We give ourselves a good conscience. We say: Look, we help. But it is not humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid is a framework, they are principles, professionals, a framed and equitable distribution.” She recalls that in Gaza, the NGOs are ready: “We have the means to get this help with dignity. Thousands of trucks are waiting for the crossing points. Just let them pass.”

Elsa Softic’s words highlight the hypocrisy of a humanitarian staging which, instead of relieving suffering, trivialize it. Behind the spectacular images of parachutes dropped on a hungry population, hides a disturbing reality: incapacity – or refusal – to allow safe, organized and respectful access to the territory of Gaza. Far from being an altruistic gesture, these drops symbolize a moral abandonment disguised as charity, a desperate attempt to save appearances without facing political and humanitarian responsibilities. For NGOs present in the field, ready to intervene in the rules of the art, this choice of method is an additional humiliation inflicted on an already overwhelmed population. Especially since these drops occur even as a current genocide, documented and denounced by many organizations, continues in the most total impunity.

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