“What is missing is political will,” says the director of international operations of Médecins du Monde on the subject of humanitarian aid

While humanitarian aid trucks are blocked, 95% of the population of the Gaza Strip (Palestine) is threatened with famine according to the UN. “There has now been a total blockade for almost five months. Before October 7, hundreds of trucks returned every day. (…) What is missing is the political will”, indicates Helena Ranchal, director of international operations at Médecins du Monde, guest of 19/20 info.

According to her, the operations “are advancing by the centimeter every day”. She explains that the airdrops carried out by the United States and Jordan are effective “very limited” due, in particular, to the difficulty of identifying landing points, and the difficulty of distribution.

“Completely dissonant objectives”

According to Stéphane Séjourné, Minister of Foreign Affairs, “Israel is clearly responsible for blocking humanitarian aid.”a situation that he judges “unjustifiable and indefensible“.

“The Quai d’Orsay is heavily involved on the humanitarian side. Afterwards, France still has hostages in Gaza and I think that the security and humanitarian diplomatic calendars are intertwined with completely dissonant objectives., analyzes Michel Derczansky, specialist in the Middle East and also guest on 19/20 info. According to him, if the humanitarian emergency is “indisputable“, the intelligence community and the diplomatic community are not on the same wavelength.