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Humanitarian Aid Returns to Gaza - and Hamas
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Israel restored the flow of aid to Gaza on Monday with full knowledge that much of it will be stolen by Hamas. Some of the supplies will then be sold back to the people, financing Hamas's war effort and the patronage that sustains its rule. Now Israel is letting in a basic amount of aid as a bridge, it says, until a new mechanism can bring more to civilians but deprive Hamas. That's the goal of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S. initiative led by Jake Wood, a founder of the Team Rubicon disaster-response group. The foundation will open distribution centers in areas of Gaza with IDF perimeter control. Private U.S. security contractors will handle the distribution. The UN and human-rights and aid groups have protested bitterly. They - and Hamas - are being sidelined by the new initiative. The UN complaint is that the new aid mechanism won't initially reach every part of Gaza. Maybe so, but the answer is to help it get started and scale up, not to resign oneself to aiding Hamas's war effort.