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Privatizing Occupation: How Israel and the U.S. Replaced Aid with Enforcement

From discrediting the UN to embedding U.S. contractors, Israel’s Gaza strategy replaces humanitarian aid with surveillance, privatized checkpoints, and displacement.

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Sarah B.
May 20, 2025
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Discrediting the Gatekeepers: Israel’s Campaign Against UNRWA and NGOs

Well before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, Israel had launched a sustained campaign to delegitimize the international institutions anchoring Gaza’s humanitarian lifeline. In early 2023, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen publicly called for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)…

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