Lotan newspaper said that Israel is considering establishing a private company owned by an Israeli-American millionaire to replace the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after it was banned, in delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip, which raises many questions regarding international law.
The newspaper asked – in a report written by Luis Lima – is this a decisive step towards charting the “day after” for Gaza? The Israeli security cabinet met on Sunday evening to discuss a new “pilot project” aimed at delivering humanitarian aid, bringing together private organizations, mercenaries and facial recognition technologies, and all that remained was the Israeli and American green light to begin this process.
The Israeli Parliament confirmed that an order had been issued for UNRWA to stop its activities in Gaza within 3 months, and none of the other United Nations agencies, nor the International Committee of the Red Cross, intends to replace UNRWA, which emerges from Palestinian society, and which has proven itself for a long time and employed 13,000 people in Gaza. Before the war started.
Uber in war zones
According to the Israeli press, Tel Aviv is actively seeking to assign Onorwa’s work to a private company, the “Global Delivery Company,” which was founded by the Israeli-American businessman Mordechai Kahane, and which has previously worked in several wars, including Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine.
Kahane worked as a taxi driver in New York as a young man, made his fortune in the car rental sector, then mixed with the artificial intelligence sector, and he describes the company he created as “Uber in war zones,” in reference to the online car rental company.
This project will cost the millionaire, born in occupied Jerusalem, $200 million for the first six months. He described on his organization’s website and on social media the appearance that this special service could take for the residents of Gaza, saying that “a well-trained security apparatus” today represents “the realistic way.” The only one to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip.
Kahane Company confirmed that it held discussions with the Israeli army, the Ministry of Defense, and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and was proud of its ability to rely on employees capable of “managing crowd movements” with “lethal” weapons if their lives were in danger, noting that “their training, equipment, and discipline” enable them to Succeeding where the conventional military fails, not to mention potential UN intervention forces that are “perceived as ineffective.”
The last Jewish family in Aleppo
The newspaper pointed out that this is not Mordechai Kahane’s first attempt, as he began caring for refugees in Syria, but gradually he focused on saving Jewish citizens, and he carried out the process of “handing over” the last Jewish family living in Aleppo to Israel, but the woman he “rescued” returned with her family. She moved to Syria and converted to Islam, after the Jewish Agency refused to grant her Muslim husband Israeli citizenship.
The Jewish Agency responsible for Jewish immigration said it was “outraged” by the actions of this “cowboy,” and its spokesman said, “I think he is playing with people’s lives.” This does not prevent his company from including the Jewish Agency among its most important “partners.”
As for the “pilot project” that might see the light in Gaza, Mordechai Kahane referred to “subcontracting” in military aspects with a company of British mercenaries whose name he did not want to specify, but his main interest – according to him – lies in separating the Palestinians and making them part of the A series of “gated communities”, often called residential neighborhoods.
Kahane explained that a generalized facial recognition system would allow only authorized members to access this closed “bubble” while ensuring that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) does not exist, explaining in a tweet that “terrorists will take a bullet.”
It seems that the Israeli authorities have been exploring ways to succeed UNRWA, which they want to get rid of on the basis that it has relations with Hamas, and they do not want the Israeli army to be personally responsible for distributing food supplies. They are also reluctant to allow the Palestinian Authority to return to Gaza to represent the backbone of a state. Possible.
However, the privatization of aid accompanied by its militarization raises – according to Lotan – multiple questions regarding international law, and also raises security concerns, especially after the “flour massacre” when a convoy arrived and civilians flocked to it and were then shot by the Israeli army, killing 118 and wounding more than 760. Others.