Erin Gore, the WCK chief executive, said: “This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organisations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable.”
The charity will pause its operations in the region and says it will make a decision about the future of its work, raising fears that a nascent maritime corridor from Cyprus to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza in the face of repeated Israeli obstructions may collapse.
I agree. It’s mainly for diplomatic relations that we can’t immediately go from arming then to punishing them – although I am certainly in favor of the latter. With how things stand, a slower approach of giving them one chance to stop fucking up before cracking down hard is probably more realistic and would have more support.