US most complicit in Gaza genocide: Ireland’s ex-president Robinson
US President Donald Trump must realise that his country is the most complicit in the genocide in Gaza, says Mary Robinson, ex-president of Ireland and ex-UN high commissioner for human rights.
She visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Monday as part of a delegation from the Elders group of global leaders, founded by former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2007.
Here are some of the other points she made in her interview with Al Jazeera Arabic:
- Thousands of trucks are being prevented from entering Gaza on unacceptable and illogical pretexts.
- The reality we have seen is that there is famine and genocide unfolding in Gaza.
- We want to mobilise the efforts of countries around the world to do everything they can to stop the genocide in Gaza.
- I commemorate Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and his companions, who were killed before we reached the Rafah crossing.
So put sanctions on Israel and the USA. Enough with the empty words.
International condemnation of Israel has not brought any relief to starving Gaza
There has been growing international condemnation of Israel for creating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with dozens of countries calling for Israel to allow in significant aid flows and put an end to the famine.
But that pressure hasn’t changed the way things are being conducted on the ground at all. We’re seeing more restrictions, more manoeuvres by the Israeli military.
They gave permission for some aid trucks to enter Gaza, to create a media buzz that there is food coming in. But that has nothing to do with what’s going on, on the ground. More people are still dying on a daily basis of enforced starvation.
What we’re hearing from people working in the field is that they need close to three months’ worth of a constant flow of aid coming in, a thousand trucks on a daily basis, to make up for the lack of food for the past five months as a result of Israel’s total humanitarian blockade.
So, trucks coming in, in their tens, are not addressing the deepening humanitarian crisis.
