Now the world must intervene!
Regardless of what one might think of the conflict in the Middle East, the world community must take action against the heartbreaking situation that develops in Gaza after the relief was blocked from March 2.
Parallel to the war now and requires its victims, the aid organizations report that families eat animal feed and flour mixed with sand to survive.
The recent report to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifcation (IPC), which is created with assistance from UN bodies, is a appalling status report showing a dramatic deterioration of the situation since October.
The experts fear that 470,000 people will starve to death before September. According to Save the Children, 930,000 children are exposed to critical hungry risk. This applies to 93 per cent of the children, figures that should cause the warning lights to flash.
« Nothing has gotten into Gaza – no food, water, fuel or medication – since Israeli authorities introduced a total siege, Save the Children reports in a press release.
Can we really sit still in the boat? The world around seems to be stunned by the cruel everyday life of the war, while the classic and stuck debate in the Middle East contributes to a standstill.
From May 5, a plan was knotted for the distribution of emergency aid, with private actors controlled by Israel and the United States. This measure calls the IPC highly inadequate, reports Reuters and NTB.
The United States, with its influence on Israel, now has a great responsibility to set foot for what’s about to happen. Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia is supposed to be about billion investments, but the appeal from an entire world should be that the emergency situation in Gaza is demanding action now.
Different views on the war in Gaza must not stand in the way of what is really urgent, namely to save fellow human beings from Hunger Death.
Then the critics in a familiar style will probably think that the situation in Sudan and Congo is just as bad, but one disaster does not justify the other. Over 80 million are driven in the world and should be met by a huge commitment, no less funding and empathy.
In the discussion created this winter about values and value views in Europe and the United States, most are absurd if emergency aid is withheld and politicians are passivated by the political situation.
On the contrary, it requires II against leadership, action and a crisis understanding here and now, so the warfare is sanctioned in retrospect.
Something tells us that the historical verdict is very hard to a world that chooses to ignore.