Humanitarian aid has become a lifeline for these groups, enabling their deadly attacks. We’d like to assume that most humanitarian aid groups are obscuring these issues for the right reasons—the belief that their continued operation is helpful to the local population. This is an urgent problem, not just for the victims of international terrorism, but also for the populations living under these groups’ reign of terror, and for international aid groups themselves. We need to make some major changes to the way aid groups work in conflict zones. Aid groups need to build high walls between themselves and the terror groups that pass for governments in these war-torn lands.

Source: New York Times December 10, 2023 07:54 UTC