What's Needed To Save The Damned In Gaza

Salvation For The Damned

 "No amount of humanitarian response will make up for the months of deprivation that families in Gaza have endured. This is our effort to salvage the humanitarian operation so that we can provide, at the very least, the bare essentials: medicine, drinking water, food, and shelter as temperatures plummet.

For this, we need:

1. An immediate ceasefire.
2. Civilians and the infrastructure they rely on to be protected.
3. The hostages to be released immediately.
4. Reliable entry points that would allow us to bring aid in from all possible crossings, including to northern Gaza. 
5. Security assurances and unimpeded passage to distribute aid, at scale, across Gaza, with no denials, delays and access impediments.
6. A functioning humanitarian notification system that allows all humanitarian staff and supplies to move within Gaza and deliver aid safely. 
7. Roads to be passable and neighborhoods to be cleared of explosive ordnance.
8. A stable communication network that allows humanitarians to move safely and securely.  
9. UNRWA¹, the backbone of the humanitarian operations in Gaza, to receive the resources it needs to provide life-saving assistance. 
10. A halt to campaigns that seek to discredit the United Nations and non-governmental organizations doing their best to save lives.  

Humanitarian agencies remain committed, despite the risks. But they cannot be left to pick up the pieces. 

We are calling on Israel to fulfil its legal obligation, under international humanitarian and human rights law, to provide food and medical supplies and facilitate aid operations, and on the world’s leaders to prevent an even worse catastrophe from happening.

Signatories:

Mr. Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Ms. Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro, Secretary General, CARE International
Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Ms. Jane Backhurst, Chair, ICVA (Christian Aid) 
Mr. Jamie Munn, Executive Director, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) 
Mr. Tom Hart, Chief Executive Officer and President, InterAction
Ms. Amy E. Pope, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM) 
Ms. Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps
Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 
Ms. Janti Soeripto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children
Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (SR on HR of IDPs) 
Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 
Mr. Michal Mlynár, Executive Director a.i., United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) 
Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Ms. Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women 
Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) 

[1] The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) fully supports the statement."

Once again the world watches as the Palestinians get dumped on by a colonizing power. This has been going on since Balfour made nice with the Zionists. It is time for all sides to lay down their arms and use their minds and hearts instead of tanks and bombs to create the solution.

The Green Man