Nigeria, May 31 -- What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion - Israel's desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security - and the naked show of violent desperation. Via the shoddy US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, distribution of necessities in the Gaza Strip through the organisation's delivery arm, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), has been inadequate and selective.

SRS is a disreputable outfit, one lacking a resume in humanitarian aid. Its prowess, rather, lies in the realm of military intelligence. A report from Ynet News describes its functions as "operating roadblocks, processing visual data from cameras, drones and satellites and using it t...