Israel-Gaza latest: Gaza enduring ‘atrocious death and destruction’, UN boss warns – as he demands Israelis allow ‘flood’ of aid | World News

Israel’s aid policy is a “complete mess” and will likely pull up to two million people towards a small southern beach with no sanitation, facilities or infrastructure, says defence and security analyst Michael Clarke.

Declining to coordinate with the UN’s aid agency in Gaza, UNRWA, Israel wants to set up a new organisation made up of “inexperienced” private contractors called the Gaza Humanitarian Organisation, he says.

It will operate from four areas, three of which are in the south of the territory near Al Mawasi, explains Clarke.

“The Gaza Humanitarian Organisation is a completely untried private enterprise arrangement with the Israeli government and I’ll be astonished if it can distribute anything like the aid that the UN says is required,” says Clarke.

“Normally, food goes to starving people. In this case, starving people have got to go and find the food.”

‘It’s historically unprecedented’

The UN says Israel is weaponising food distribution to pull people into the south of the country.

The United Nations agency UNRWA says it has a system that can administer 500-600 trucks of aid each day as they have done for years, Clarke says.

“Two million people are rattling around inside a devastated landscape from which they cannot escape. 

“In my experience, I’ve never known a battlefield this small in which civilians can’t get out of it, in this number. 

“It’s historically unprecedented, in my view.”