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Paul Adams Ali Abbas Ahmadi
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem Live reporter
A UN official says last night’s attack which killed seven staff of the charity World Central Kitchen is either a "dreadful failure of deconfliction" or evidence that the system that exists now is not fit for purpose.
A UN official with extensive experience in Gaza, who asked not to be identified, said that the greatest fear of aid workers is that the Civilian Liaison Administration, the branch of the Israeli military tasked with coordinating with humanitarian organisations, "doesn’t really have a grip". Echoing the concerns raised by a UN official to my colleague earlier, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council is telling me the system where aid groups co-ordinate with Israeli authorities – known as a deconfliction system – “is now in deep crisis”.
What’s known as "deconfliction" is a system that allows aid organisations to work in some of the world’s hottest conflicts, including Yemen, Ukraine, Syria and Gaza. All aid organisations are entirely dependent on Israel to function in Gaza, Jan Egeland explains.
It generally takes two forms. One is “notification”: making sure that the relevant military powers know where humanitarian organisations are located (including providing GPS coordinates of all facilities) and where vehicles are expected to be moving at any given time on any given day. “Nothing can move in and out of Gaza without Israel’s permission,” he says, and adds that this is one of the reasons why too little aid has entered the Palestinian enclave.
“Coordination” is a more detailed level, involving real-time communication with the CLA, while humanitarian teams are actually on the move. The NRC, like all aid groups, informs Israel of the precise movements of its employees, and the locations of their guesthouses and warehouses. The groups, however, get no information from the IDF, says Egeland.
Israeli air strikes hitting the World Central Kitchen convoy demonstrates that “there is a need for a complete reboot in our relations with the Israeli military”, he says.
He highlights that this “appalling attack” is not the only time aid workers have been targeted, pointing out that around 200 have been killed in Gaza since 7 October.
Egeland says that he has reached out to the UN and other NGOs to together set up a functioning deconfliction system.
The one used during the Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah - when UN liaison officers were embedded with the IDF - worked well, he says, and hopes something similar can be set up in Gaza.
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