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The minuscule amount of aid Israeli authorities are allowing into the Gaza Strip is a smokescreen to make it appear that the siege is over. |
The war and blockade on Gaza continue to wreak havoc on Palestinians’ health and leave them in desperate need of medical care, food, water, and other necessities. At the same time, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week alone. Meanwhile, Israeli military operations increase, airstrikes intensify, and widespread evacuation orders continue.
Israeli authorities must stop the deliberate asphyxiation of Palestinians in Gaza and the annihilation of Gaza’s health care system—actions that are underpinning their campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving,” said Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Khan Younis. “This plan is a way to instrumentalize aid, making it a tool to further Israeli forces’ military objectives.”
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