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Amnesty lambasts Israel’s allies over siege on Gaza
The prominent human rights group says “it is outrageous and morally reprehensible” that it took the world nearly 80 days of starvation in Gaza to exert enough pressure on Israel to let some aid in.
And still, “letting in a handful of aid trucks – a drop in the ocean, while simultaneously intensifying military operations […] is a cynical attempt to sugarcoat Israel’s ongoing genocide,” the group said in a post on X.
“World leaders must not be fooled,” it added.
“Nothing short of a full lifting of Israel’s siege on the occupied Gaza Strip and an immediate, enduring ceasefire will help to alleviate the catastrophic suffering Palestinians in Gaza are being forced to endure under the watch of Israel’s allies.”
It is outrageous and morally reprehensible that it took the world nearly 80 days of broadcast starvation and cruelty amidst genocide to exert enough pressure on Israel to even slightly ease its total siege that has blocked the entry of all food, medicine, fuel and other vital…
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) May 19, 2025
Australian senator slams government’s inaction on Israeli war, blockade
Mehreen Faruqi of the Greens Party says Australia should have signed onto the statement from the United Kingdom, Canada, and France threatening sanctions against Israel.
“At the very least, the Prime Minister could join the statement of our allies,” Faruqi said in a post on Instagram. Australia joined a separate statement, signed by 22 countries, asking Israel to “allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately”.
However, Faruqi said, “Calling on Israel to allow aid through, without backing it with real action, is meaningless.” “What is needed are sanctions and an end to the arms trade – not empty statements and diplomatic cowardice that this genocidal regime has made clear it will simply ignore,” she added.
More than 760 NGOs urge world to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
Some 761 aid groups and nongovernmental organisations across the globe have signed onto an appeal urging the world to halt the “manufactured famine” in Gaza by breaking the Israeli siege on the enclave and sending in a diplomatic humanitarian convoy through the Rafah crossing.
The call was launched by Palestinian civil society groups on May 12.It gained more than 300 signatures within a day, including from prominent groups such as Human Rights Watch.
“We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions – at the highest possible level – to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them,” the petition states. “This act is grounded in states’ legal obligations, moral courage, and human solidarity.”
