Aid agencies and charities - are they neutral?

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I have noticed that a lot of people are a little hesitant in giving donations unreservedly to charities like Oxfam now. I think back on the 80s and 90s there was a national sympathy with famine in Africa culminating in band aid but I think people now are being a lot more circumspect about donations.

Gaza is a prime example of where people do hesitate in donating as it does feel you are donating to a side in a conflict and I wonder to what extent charitable giving is influenced by their views of who is the aggressor in this conflict and whether they can safely say aid is not being indirectly used to support Hamas.

It seems like charities like Oxfam (who I do not donate to now) are taking a stance on a military conflict when they as a charity should remain firmly neutral in their aid efforts. I would have more respect for their charity of some of the money they raise was given to the families of hostages to support their psychological wellbeing for example.

I didn't watch comic relief but I wonder if they did mention Gaza and glossed over the reasons for the conflict (or possibly bypassed this altogether) but it shows that a lot of major aid charities have to make emotional messages to draw in the money while glossing over a lot of the causes of the problems in say Africa (Islamist upsurges for example).

I wonder if those that participate in the Palestinian marches disproportionately give to aid charities? Certainly currently a lot of my peers are now viewing charities a little more cynically now.

So let’s assume you can eliminate Hamas militarily. This means that the projected annihilation of 70,0000, mainly civilian , Palestinians is being justified by some people in order to eliminate the remaining 20% of the estimated 30,000 Hamas operatives (6,000 men) to reduce the terrorist threat to Israel. The 7/10 attacks were associated with really bad defence decisions on numerous levels and the background threat of dying in a terrorist attack in Israel is less than being killed in a road traffic accident
This to me is saying that Palestinian lives are being viewed disposable by some and increasingly in finding it easier to believe that Gaza is being cleared to reroute the Ben Gurion canal
The image is from Wikipedia but I’ve looked at figures from the online Jewish library before that told the same story

People have their own opinions. I imagine in a huge aid organisation there will be people with a range of views and some extremes there.

Aid workers that only work in a single country for years might be more likely to understand the views of the population they support.

Yeah but it's fine for Palestinian's to die...according to some PP