2024-03-09 15:20:02
Doctors Without Borders described the United States’ intention to establish a temporary humanitarian port in Gaza as “an attempt to hide attention from the real problem represented by the Israeli blockade imposed on the Strip,” at a time when the destruction exceeded expectations, as the direct losses due to the aggression against Gaza exceeded so far. The $30 billion.
In a statement, the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders in the United States, Avril Benoit, called on the government of President Joe Biden to pressure Israel to open border crossings ready to bring in aid.
On Thursday, President Biden announced during his State of the Union address that he had issued instructions to the US army to establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast.
“The real problem lies in the blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza and the use of disproportionate force,” Benoit said in the statement. The organization noted that the food, water, and medical supplies needed by the Palestinians are on the border, demanding that Israel allow them to reach the Gaza Strip.
She explained that the problem is not logistical, but political. She said: “The United States should insist on immediate access to humanitarian aid through existing crossings and corridors, instead of circumventing the problem,” adding that “the only guaranteed way to increase the arrival of urgent aid is to declare a ceasefire in Gaza.”
The statement pointed out that the United States used its veto power against the draft ceasefire resolution in Gaza three times in the United Nations Security Council.
International Red Cross
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spolijaric, described the war on the Gaza Strip as “shattering all meanings of common humanity.”
She said, in a statement on Saturday, that after five months of war, “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.”
The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross stressed that “Israel, as the occupying power, must meet the basic needs of the population, or facilitate the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid.” She believed 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, pointing out that “this is the dividing line between humanity and And barbarism.”
Losses of $30 billion
In addition to hunger, Gaza suffers from massive destruction, affecting more than 80% of the facilities there. The government media office in Gaza said on Saturday, “The direct losses due to the Zionist aggression to date are more than $30 billion; the damage includes housing, facilities, and infrastructure, including road, electricity, water, and sewage networks, and 80% of the homes in Gaza Governorate and North Gaza have become unusable.” To live in.”
The head of the media office said, “The Gaza Strip is experiencing an Israeli war of starvation, and 120,000 families are suffering from real famine in the northern Gaza Strip. No aid has entered, and the occupation deliberately did so as part of a policy of ethnic cleansing.”
Regarding humanitarian aid, the head of the government media office in Gaza said, “The aid that was dropped by air is not sufficient, and the occupation is obstructing the entry of aid, and the work of the Gaza Strip crossings must be activated. The occupation has deliberately launched a war of starvation as part of its comprehensive war on the Strip, and with the threat of famine in the northern Gaza Strip, any effort will… “It can satisfy people’s hunger.”
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