Aguilar worked with UG Solutions between May and June this year and describes the entire operation as deeply dysfunctional.
“Nothing was open. Nobody could figure out how to get food there,” Aguilar said in an interview with France 24’s Jessica Le Masurier. “So we had the idea of [ordering pizza] in Beersheba and having them make 27 pizzas and deliver them through Wolt, which is the Israeli DoorDash, to the main operations center in Karem Shalom.”
The pizzas were then transported into Gaza in what Aguilar described as “an armored convoy,” eventually reaching Distribution Site 1, where they were handed out to Palestinian local workers, referring to the difficulties in feeding local workers who were assisting GHF operations.
Let me get this straight,” Le Masurier asked. “Safe Reach Solutions was able to bring pizza in when the entire population of Gaza is starving and there are UN aid trucks that are unable to enter Gaza and not allowed to distribute aid while people are starving. But SRS was able to bring in pizza to one of their sites?”
“It’s abhorrent. If it weren’t so tragic, it would be comedy. It’s not comedy, because it is absolutely tragic,” Aguilar said.
@geneva_convenience
And yet, according to Israel, there is no food shortage in Gaza.I can’t begin to imagine the physical effects of greasy pizza laden with God knows what on a malnourished and dehydrated people.
I think these pizzas were just for these contractors. That’s what makes is so abhorrent. Americans there can literally have pizza delivered while Palestinian children starve.
They were for local workers yeah but like, those workers probably aren’t at the worst risk of starving.
Maybe, I thought Palestinians because the article says:
The pizzas were then transported into Gaza in what Aguilar described as “an armored convoy,” eventually reaching Distribution Site 1, where they were handed out to Palestinian local workers, referring to the difficulties in feeding local workers who were assisting GHF operations.
I would think these were Palestinians, but it’s not clear, on rereading.
Yes. The Americans got pizza. For themselves and the people they were working with.
The point is Americans got it through and it didn’t go to anyone seriously ill, as they were workers. Or so I’d think, based on my reading.
I get the point, thank you. If some of the aid workers were Palestinian, would the also not be malnourished, is what I’m getting at. But “Palestinian aid workers” could mean some assistants were Palestinians, which is how I took it. Or now since you’ve mentioned it, simply workers distributing Palestinian aid. And now that’s bugging me.
Ambiguity is vexing.
