Accessing the Potential: Towards a UNPROFOR in Gaza
I mage credit; Ya Libnan news It has been a month since Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of DAWN put forward the suggestion for an International Protection Force for Gaza [i] . The intervention was called due to the current threat of famine that waits for 576,000 people in Gaza. This demand is not novel and there has been special intervention in the past to protect civilians. This begs for a review of the UN's crucial experience during the Yugoslavia war, when it founded the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in former Yugoslavia in the context of Gaza. UNPROFOR was sent in Former Yugoslavia primarily to monitor ceasefires, provide humanitarian relief, and protect people during the conflict. The force had added rights to monitor the "no-fly" zone that prohibited all the military aircraft in United Nations Protected Areas (UNAPs), within Bosnia and Herzegovina, authorization to use force in self-defense and coordinate air power deployment for NATO o
