Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh called on Monday for the international community to take urgent action to stop the Israeli occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip and ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
The Palestinian news agency "Wafa" quoted Fattouh as calling on the global humanitarian conscience to act immediately, and not to settle for statements of concern and condemnation, but to pressure for an end to the aggression and the bloodshed, lifting the siege, and ensuring the urgent flow of humanitarian aid and shelter and reconstruction supplies.
He pointed out that protecting civilians is a legal and ethical responsibility that cannot be delayed, and that this continued silence leaves an entire people facing death and disaster. He added that strangling more than two million Palestinians in less than a third of the Strip's area, amidst a lack of shelter and the absence of the most basic elements of protection and safety, turns the lives of displaced people into a daily confrontation with death.
Fattouh stressed that the international community's silence and inability to take effective action in the face of these tragedies is no longer mere political inaction, but has become a moral and humanitarian failure in the face of scenes of children and women facing death under rubble and collapsed tents, amid cold, rain, and the lack of the most basic means of protection.
Five Palestinians were killed yesterday due to the collapse of a sand cliff on the tents of displaced people in the Arid al-Ribat camp in Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, including a woman and three children, coinciding with a weather low and heavy rains that flooded tents and damaged shelter centers, amid warnings of the collapse of cracked buildings and the threat to the lives of more civilians.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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