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Which countries have signed the joint statement demanding Israel end its war on Gaza?
The joint statement signed by the foreign ministers of a total of 28 countries says Israel’s war on Gaza “must end now” and condemns “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food”.
The countries who signed it are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
These governments, many of them allies of Israel, issued some of their strongest language yet, condemning the obstruction of aid in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Israel targeting women in Gaza due to ‘reproductive capacity’: UN special rapporteur
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, has told Al Jazeera that “all Palestinians, men, boys, girls and women are being subjected to this genocidal enterprise in a very sadistic, unprecedented and relentless manner, but within that … women and girls are deliberately being targeted by Israel because they are Palestinian and because of the reproductive capacity.
“Israel realises that … Palestinian women and girls carry the promise of the continuity of Palestinian life, and therefore they are being deliberately killed, and they’re being deliberately exterminated,” she said.
Alsalem has recently published a report on the topic, in which she says the actions taken by Israel in Gaza “are geared towards undermining the continuity of Palestinian life, to undermine Palestinian existence … to exterminate Palestinian life”.
“We see this through the increased rates of miscarriages among Palestinian women, the severe malnutrition… Even pregnant and lactating women are unable to breastfeed,” she said.
Baby formula has also been deliberately prevented from entering Gaza by Israel, which she says is reminiscent of the tactics used by Nazi Germany in the siege of Stalingrad during World War II.
