It feels like aid workers in Gaza are working with “two hands tied” behind their backs, Georgia Tacey, Save the Children’s Gaza response director, tells Al Jazeera.
“At the moment, we are just running services instead of being able to deliver a lot of the usual aid like food hygiene kits, shelter kits, because our warehouses are empty and all of our stock is stuck in thousands of trucks on the border,” Tacey said.
It is “a roller-coaster of emotions here between anger and frustration and despai … I’ve been working in the sector for 20 years. We haven’t seen anything like this before,” she said.
Referring to the GHF’s takeover of aid distribution in Gaza, she said: “When you have only four distribution sites instead of the 400 that we’re used to working with in terms of the UN and NGO community, people are going to act desperately, and they’re humiliated that they’re acting this way, and they shouldn’t be expected to act politely.”
“This system was set up by design to fail, so all we’re asking is to open those borders. Let us do our jobs. Children cannot unsee what they’ve seen. They can’t unknow what they know now, which is that it appears human rights are only for children in certain countries,” she said.
