A multinational mission could provide protection for aid workers and security for the orderly distribution of supplies
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 5.Lloyd Axworthy is chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council and a former Canadian foreign minister. Allan Rock is a former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada and Canadian ambassador to the United Nations.
First, let’s look at the context. Momentum may at last be building toward addressing the conflict and its consequences in Gaza, where more than 32,000 people have been killed and a critical shortage of humanitarian supplies has led to famine. The United Nations Security Council last week adopted aon the conflict calling for a ceasefire, the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas and broadened humanitarian access.
But even if humanitarian access is enlarged, there remains a major obstacle to the safe and orderly distribution of supplies: namely, the absence in Gaza of a means to maintain order and protect aid workers. The Gaza police are not available to help: they have been decimated by the Israeli armed forces.last week detailed the chaos and violence that resulted when desperate crowds rioted while trying to reach airdropped food and water.
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