The letter of 298 prominent personalities of the world to the Secretary General of the United Nations condemning the crimes of the Zionist regime and supporting the oppressed people of Palestine.
His Excellency Antonio Guterres
Secretary General of the United Nations
We are writing this letter to request the United Nations to intervene immediately to end Israel’s war crimes and brutal atrocities in the attack on Gaza and the West Bank.
We are sending you this letter while the Israeli war machine has so far killed more than 3,500 Palestinians in Gaza and injured more than 12,000 people. The vast majority of victims are civilians.
In the West Bank, nearly 70 people have been killed by Israeli forces and 1,300 people have been injured, and the vast majority of them are civilians.
During the attack on the densely populated Gaza Strip, Israel knowingly violated international law by targeting civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, schools, hospitals, ambulances, mosques, roads full of fleeing people, and food factories. has done.
It has also directly targeted civilian gatherings, for example, on 10/17/2023, it bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza where displaced residents were seeking refuge, and on 10/13/2023, it bombed a convoy carrying civilians to the south. Gaza was bombarded.
In addition, according to several human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, Israel has used white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon. White phosphorus, which is illegal to use, can indiscriminately burn houses and cause severe injuries to civilians when exploded in the air in densely populated urban areas. White phosphorus burns at temperatures over 800 degrees Celsius, which is enough to melt metal.
According to UN workers and officials themselves, there is no safe place in Gaza.
Gaza is under complete siege and continuous bombardment. With hospitals overflowing, medical supplies in short supply, electricity and water cut off by Israel, and food supplies dwindling due to the siege, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is desperate for civilians.
It is quite clear that Israel has grossly violated international law by abandoning the obligation to respect the proportional use of force and not distinguishing between civilians and soldiers. According to Mark Garlasko, a military adviser at the Dutch organization PAX for Peace and a former UN war crimes investigator in Libya, Israel “dropped as many bombs on people in less than a week as the United States dropped in Afghanistan in a year, and “It’s in a much smaller, much denser area, and where the mistakes get bigger.”
Considering the war crimes that are currently being committed against the people of Gaza, what action do you intend to take to try and restrain the Israeli war machine? The United Nations was formed in the wake of World War II with the express purpose of maintaining a law-based world order and preventing a repeat of the horrors of that conflict. With this existential philosophy, how long is the UN going to wait and watch a genocide unfold before our eyes?
We ask and expect you to rise to your urgent duty and stop any effort to help end this bloodbath by containing Israel, establishing an immediate ceasefire, and attempting to arrange for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. do not hesitate Until Israel stops and is held accountable for the crimes it is currently committing in Gaza and the West Bank, it will continue to kill and maim people without fear of punishment, and mock international law.