Atrocity is piling on to atrocity at a level unlike anything we have seen over our working experience with MSF, in some of the most acute humanitarian crises of the last decades. Israel has killed over 43,000 people, including nearly 14,000 children, and has injured more than 100,000 others, according to health authorities in Gaza.
Our medical teams have witnessed first-hand the horrors of this relentless bombing campaign; children with burns across their whole bodies and faces, many with crushed limbs after being buried under the rubble for hours, others who had to face amputations without anaesthesia, and body after body being brought to our medical facilities.
The Israeli forces have failed repeatedly and consistently to spare the people of Gaza and continued their annihilation of the Strip, making it uninhabitable. During our visits, even if we expected the worst, we were shocked by the magnitude of destruction: houses, water and electric systems, schools, university, mosques, churches, hospitals, public archives, historical sites all levelled, adding up to more than 66 per cent of the existing buildings, according to the United Nations.
Some of our 800 colleagues in Gaza told us how the Israeli offensive has destroyed the social fabric, their hopes, and even their memories; objects, pictures and other links with their past have been destroyed . All the components of a society have been destroyed.
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice ordered that Israel desist from the killing of Palestinian people, end their forced displacement from their homes, ensure their access to humanitarian assistance, and take all measures within its power to end the destruction of life in Gaza. Ten months later, no tangible effort has been made to prevent a genocide.
On the contrary, Israeli forces continue killing people in scores and deliberately obstructing the delivery of aid. The vote by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on 28 October to ban UNRWA is the latest devastating blow to being able to provide relief to Palestinians. It’s past the time that Israel stopped openly disregarding the ruling of the International Court of Justice, and its allies ended their support to Israel’s campaign of destruction of the Palestinians of Gaza.
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