Israeli acts in Gaza point to ethnic cleansing, genocide: European rapporteur
Saskia Kluit, a Dutch senator and rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the need to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, has denounced the “man-made massacre” under way in the Palestinian territory.
“Children are the first victims of this systematic violence. Without food, clean water, medical care and safe shelter, their right to life is being denied,” Kluit said in a statement.
“It is clear that the Israeli government is not respecting international humanitarian law, which requires that humanitarian aid be delivered unconditionally, unhindered and in sufficient quantities to sustain the health of a population,” she said.
Kluit also noted that Palestinians in Gaza have been “confined to an ever-shrinking space” while “so-called safe zones offer no safety at all”.
“All this – combined with the declarations on the Gazans by members of the Israeli government – makes it very hard to ignore that these acts point in the direction of ethnic cleansing and genocide,” she said.
"#Gaza: acts point in the direction of ethnic cleansing and genocide" says PACE rapporteur Saskia Kluit.
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Palestinians collapsing from hunger as limited aid fails to meet Gaza’s needs
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reiterates that the limited humanitarian aid that has been allowed into the enclave so far falls far short of what’s needed to meet the needs of residents.
“This amount might only meaningfully help just a fraction of Gaza’s population,” he said.
Abu Azzoum explained that Palestinians have been gathering outside bakeries in hopes of getting some bread to feed their families. But these “bakeries can’t cover the entire population and cannot stop the spread of famine”, he said.
“People are collapsing because they are unable to get any sort of food,” he added.
