Opposition to Delivery of Aid by U.S. Mercenaries

Meanwhile, the High Commission for Clans Affairs in the southern governorates of Gaza issued a strong statement on May 18 rejecting any foreign intervention that seeks to undermine Palestinian national sovereignty or bypass internationally recognized institutions operating in the Strip, foremost among them the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said the aid distribution may start on May 24, without providing any further details.

Prominent human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Craig Mokhiber said the deployment of armed U.S. mercenaries to assist the Israeli regime in the occupation of the Gaza Strip is itself unlawful under international law. Mokhiber said that U.S. mercenaries landed in Tel Aviv to "pretend to hand out aid before cocking their guns."

"Even without further crimes (which are inevitable) their mere presence under these terms implicates them in the crimes of aggression and collective punishment, and in the denial of the jus cogens right to self-determination," Mokhiber said.

"Perfidiously framing their presence as part of a bogus humanitarian scheme does not relieve them of individual accountability, and may also render them guilty of the war crime of perfidy. In sum, they have become part of the mechanism of repression for personal monetary gain, and they are accountable as such," Mokhiber said.

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Volume 55 Number 11 - May 21, 2025

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