GENEVA: President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric Eggertoday said that the war in the Gaza Strip has destroyed ‘all meanings of common humanity.’
Spoliatric said, in a statement, that after five months of the aggression, ‘the situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating by the hour, and there is no safe place to go.’
She added, “This brutal war has broken all sense of common humanity.”
“Israel, as the occupying power, must meet the basic needs of the population or facilitate the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid,” Mirjana added.
The head of the committee affirmed that ‘a regular and large flow of humanitarian aid to meet needs is only part of the solution’ in Gaza, calling on the parties to ‘conduct their military operations in a way that avoids civilians caught in the middle of all this’ and respects international humanitarian law.
‘This is the dividing line between humanity and barbarism,’ she stressed.
The occupation authorities do not allow aid trucks
from the Arab Republic of Egypt to enter except in small quantities, according to the United Nations, which warns that 2.2 million Palestinians out of 2.4 million residents are threatened with famine, with a major shortage of food and drinking water.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA