PNN – UN officials, stating that Israel is deliberately and shamelessly using starvation as a weapon against civilians in Gaza, emphasized that the entire Gaza Strip reeks of death and that international silence and inaction in the face of these crimes is unacceptable.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Following international warnings about the depth of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Tom Wiltshire, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, announced that Israel is deliberately and shamelessly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories, and that the entire Gaza Strip reeks of death, and no one is safe from death.
No one is safe from death in Gaza.
Tom Wiltshire, while reporting to the UN Security Council during an emergency meeting convened by Denmark, Slovenia, the UK and France to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, said: Nothing has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks, no food, no medicine, no water, no shelter for the displaced. Once again, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced and are trapped in ever-shrinking spaces. Currently, 70 percent of Gaza is either in Israeli military zones or under evacuation orders and more than two million one hundred thousand people in the strip are at risk of famine.
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The international community must be held accountable for its silence on the Gaza tragedy.
The UN official noted that one in five people in Gaza is currently suffering from famine, and the humanitarian and service system has completely collapsed. I say to the member states of the Security Council, think about the questions that future generations will ask you, and say what have each of us really done to stop the most brutal war of the new century that we are witnessing daily in Gaza? Will we tell future generations that we only issued statements in response to this human catastrophe?
Tom Wiltcher stated: The few hospitals that have survived the bombing in Gaza are full of sick and wounded, and those medical teams that survived the attacks by Israeli warplanes, drones, and snipers are unable to handle this volume of wounded and sick.
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs noted: The United Nations and its partners are making great efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians, and we have strict mechanisms to ensure that aid only reaches civilians, but Israel is preventing this aid from entering, aiming to completely empty Gaza of its residents.
No more evidence is needed to prove Israel’s genocidal crimes
He added: Israel, as the occupying power, must agree to allow aid to enter Gaza and facilitate civilian access to it. The mechanisms that Israel has recently proposed for distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza are not effective at all; they are in line with the regime’s military goals and have turned hunger into a tool of blackmail. The United Nations has repeatedly presented numerous reports to the Security Council about the destruction, famine, disease, torture, repeated displacement in Gaza, along with the deliberate obstruction of aid and the systematic destruction of Palestinian lives here.
Regarding the issue of genocide in Gaza, Wilcher stated: The International Court of Justice is examining the issue and will consider reports from humanitarian organizations, but it may be too late. I ask the members of the Security Council, what more evidence do you really need to declare that genocide is taking place in Gaza? Will you take action to prevent genocide and ensure respect for international law, or will you simply say that we did everything we could?
The UN official further emphasized that the Israeli authorities must immediately lift the brutal killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the brutal blockade against the Strip, and allow aid workers to enter Gaza to save lives.
The entire population of Gaza is at risk of famine.
Meanwhile, Angelica Jacome, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), warned that the people of Gaza are suffering from severe food insecurity and the risk of imminent famine. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report confirms that the entire population of Gaza is at risk of famine.
The international official noted that the price of flour has increased by 3,000 percent in the Gaza Strip since last February.
The international community is complicit in Israel’s crimes in Gaza.
Doctors without Borders also warned that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians, and that the ongoing blockade of Gaza is increasing severe malnutrition in the region, and that Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid since March 2, a few days before resuming its attacks on Gaza.
According to a statement from Doctors without Borders, severe malnutrition in Gaza threatens pregnant women, nursing mothers and children, whose lives depend on the lifting of the blockade of the strip. We are witnessing not only a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but also a moral crisis and a collapse of values. In a situation where starvation is used as a weapon of war against civilians, the failure of countries that have the power to pressure Israeli authorities to lift the deadly blockade of Gaza is unacceptable and constitutes complicity in the crime under international law.