Islamabad : Ministry of Foreign Affairs state of Palestine believes that the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has reached unprecedented levels and has surpassed in severity the true disgrace of what remains of humanity. It affirms that the manifestations of famine, as seen today in the southern Gaza Strip, have exceeded all expectations and sounded the alarm bells, threatening the lives of more than 2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry stresses that international responses to these manifestations have not yet risen to the level of the crimes committed by the occupying forces against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially those perpetrated at the gates of aid distribution centers. This is proven daily and documented by numerous eyewitnesses, fully visible and witnessed by the international community.
The international community’s inability to protect and fortify the humanitarian pathway that ensures sustainable relief access to Gazans reveals the contradiction between positions, words, and actions. The Ministry has consistently called on the international community to make a serious distinction between all aspects of the situation in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian aspect related to the basic rights of Palestinian civilians, including their right to food, drink and housing, as fundamental principles of human rights. It reiterates its call for an awakening of conscience and human morals capable of imposing a sustainable entry of aid by land, sea and air to halt the accelerating spread of the deadly famine among more than 2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, noting that an immediate cessation of the occupation’s aggression and ceasefire is the shortest path to ensuring the protection of civilians from all the deadly dangers that threaten them.
Sohail Majeed is a Special Correspondent at The Diplomatic Insight. He has twelve plus years of experience in journalism & reporting. He covers International Affairs, Diplomacy, UN, Sports, Climate Change, Economy, Technology, and Health.
