He said this on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” on Friday. new york times Columnist Nicholas Kristoff said that if food aid were simply dropped in Gaza, it would be stolen by Hamas.
“One of the reasons for yesterday’s tragedy is that Israel clearly did not want its food aid to be delivered through UNRWA, which is a United Nations organization and has made many complaints,” Kristoff said. “There were probably 12 people in the United Nations organization.” Attack on October 7th. They are also reluctant to cooperate with traditional aid agencies. So they apparently tried to get the contractors inside, protected by Israeli tanks. And look, it is the aid agencies, including UNRWA, that know how to deliver aid. They have it – the people in the field, that network. And that group is also what you need to make the airdrop work. These are the people who collect dropped pallets on the ground and protect them from random gunmen stealing them. If we just dropped food aid, who would receive it? It would be Hamas, not the most vulnerable. ”
Kristoff also criticized President Joe Biden for suspending funding to UNRWA, arguing that he should put more pressure on Israel on aid.
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