On the level above the State of the Upper Nile, South Sudan-Strished low above the banks of the Nile River, auxiliary flight operated by US military officers in retirement released a stream of food with food through the city emptied by a fight in South Sudan, a country wrapped in conflict.
Last week’s air drop was the latest in controversial development – private contracting companies led by former American intelligence officers and military veterans provided assistance to some of the deadliest conflicts in the world organized with governments.
The movements are the drive of the global community of assistance that warns more of militarized, politicized and searching trend that could allow governments or fighters to use the help of rescue life to control the hungry civilian populations and advanced war goals.
In South Sudan and Gaza, two profitable American societies led by US veterans of National Security provide assistance in operations supported by South Sudanese and Israeli governments.
American suppliers say they report their security, logistics and intelligence skills to work in auxiliary operations. Fograbow, an American company that carried out last week Air dropped through South Sudan, says its goal is to be a “humanitarian” force.
“We worked together for a career in conflict zones. And we know how to basically work very difficult situations,” said Fogbow President Michael Mulroy, retirement officer and former Chief Defense official in the first Trump administration, and spoke at the airport asphalt in Juba, Sudanese capital.
However, the UN and many leading non -profit groups claim that US contracting companies are entering the distribution of help with little transparency or humanitarian experience A, A, is essentially without commitment to humanitarian principles of neutrality and operational independence in war zones.
“What we have learned over the years of success and failure is the difference between logistics operation and security operation and humanitarian operation,” said Scott Paul, director of Oxfam America.
“” Truck and Chuck “doesn’t help people,” Paul said. “That threatens people.”
FOGBOW took journalists to the freight aircraft to watch their team team drops 16 tons of beans, corn and salt for the state city of Nasir in the south of Sudan.
The inhabitants fled from homes after the fight in March between government and opposition groups.
Mulroy acknowledged the controversy of Fogra’s help drops, for which he said the southern Sudanese government paid.
However, he claimed, “We do not want to replace any entity” in assistance.
Last year, FOGBOW was in the center of attention for its proposal to use boats to bring assistance to Gaza, where Israeli restrictions blocked deliveries on the ground. Instead, the United States focused on US military efforts to help help through a temporary pier.
Since then, FOGBOW has decreased assistance in Sudan and South Sudan in the East African nations, where wars created some of the most prominent humanitarian crises in the world.
Fogbow says that former officials are also involved, including the former UN head of the World Food program David Beasley, who is the head of the advisor.
Meanwhile, who operates in Gazza, Solutions, led by a former CIA officer and other US security officers, has worked with a humanitarian Gaza foundation, a non -profit organization supported by Israel claiming to help link the new system to deal with UN control.
Starting at the end of May, the American operation in Gaza spread out food in solid places in South Gaza, in accordance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated the plan to help to concentrate more than 2 million people in the South and liberate Israel to fight Hamas elsewhere. Auxiliary workers are afraid that this is a step towards another Netanyahua’s public objectives and removes Palestinians from Gaza in “voluntary” migration.
Since then, several hundred Palestinians have been killed, and according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, it has tried to reach the places of Gaza and hundreds of other injured in almost everyday shooting. Witnesses say that Israeli troops regularly shoot for heavy repackings towards the crowds in an effort to control them.
The Israeli army denied shooting on civilians. He says he fired shots in several cases and fired directly on a few “suspects” who ignored the warnings and approached his forces.
It is not clear who finances the new Gaza operation. No donor applied and the US claims that it is not financing.
In response to criticism about supplies in Gaza, she said that Safe Reach Solutions said she had former workers with “ten years of experience in the world’s most difficult environment” who bring “expertise to the table along with logistics and other experts”.
Last week, the air drop over South Sudan was without an incident, despite the fight nearby. The droplet zone marked the white cross. Only a few people were seen. FOGBOW suppliers said that there were more newly returned city residents on the previous drops.
FOGBOW recognizes defects in the drops of help management, including last year in the Sudan area in South Kordofan, which ended with too thin bags of grain open to Earth.
After gaining independence from Sudan in Sudan in 2011, South Sudan tried to step out of the civil war, which killed almost 400,000 people. Groups of Rights argue that its government is one of the most corrupt in the world and has so far invested little in the suppression of the desperate humanitarian crisis.
South Sudan said he had fought FOGBOW for air drops partly due to the deep cuts of Trump Administration at the US Agency for International Development. Humanitarian Minister Albino Akol said that the drops would spread to help people in need throughout the country.
However, two southern Sudan groups question the government motifs.
“We do not want to see the humanitarian space abused by military actors … Under the shell of food,” said Edmund Yakani, leading strengthening the position of the community for Progress Organization, a local group of civil society.
Asked about the suspicion that drops help help military goals of South Sudan, Mulroy Fogbow said that the group has worked with the UN World Food program to make sure that “this assistance goes to civilians”.
“If it didn’t go to civilians, we would have hoped to get the feedback and we would stop and drop,” Mulroy said.
In her statement, the director of WFP Mary-Ellen McGroarty said: “WFP is not involved in the planning, focus or distribution of food air” on behalf of the government of South Sudan and cites humanitarian principles.
Long -term humanitarian leaders and analysts are concerned about what they consider to join fighting governments and non -profit suppliers in distribution.
When one party in the conflict decides where and how the support is distributed and who gets it, “it will always lead to some communities to receive preferential treatment,” said Jan Egeland, Executive Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Sometimes this arrangement will develop strategic goals, as well as Netanyahu plans to move Gaza civilians south, Egeland said.
The involvement of soldiers and security workers, he added, it can bring too “intimidating” to some who even need to try to get help.
Until now, Western donors have always understood these risks, Egeland said. But he showed to support the new system of help Trump in Gaza and asked, “Why the US … want to support what they resisted every other war zone for two generations?”
Mark Millar, who advised the UN and Britain about humanitarian affairs in South Sudan and else, that by involving private military suppliers, the risk of undermining the humanitarian aid and the armed conflict.
Private military suppliers “have even less compassion for a humanitarian perspective that complicates their business -based model,” he said. “And as soon as they relax, they seem to be even less responsible.”
Knickmeyer reported from Washington. Mednick informed from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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