From dawn the Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed at least 33 people, according to medical sources taken from Al Jazeera. Of the total, 21 were killed in Gaza City, where the massive assault by land of Israel is underway to conquer the main urban center of the strip. The Israeli attacks in the main network lines in the north of Gaza have also caused the internet and telephone services to collapse, isolating the inhabitants of the strip from the outside world. This was reported by the Palestinian authority for telecommunications, based in the West Bank. Until a few weeks ago, Gaza was inhabited by one million people. Yesterday, the Israeli army made it known that they remained still six hundred thousand between the rubble and the debris.
At the end of the general hearing, the Pope expressed his “profound proximity to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continues to live in fear and survive in unacceptable conditions forced by force to move, still a time, from his own lands”. The words of the pontiff were welcomed by the faithful in St. Peter’s Square with an applause. “In front of the almighty gentleman who commanded” you will not kill “and in the presence of the entire human history, each person always has an inviolable dignity to be respected and guarded. I renew the appeal to the ceasefire, to the release of the hostages to the negotiated diplomatic solution, to the full respect of the international humanitarian law. I invite everyone to join my heartfelt prayer so that a dawn of peace and justice soon arises, “he concluded.
Meanwhile, over 20 humanitarian organizations, including Save The Children, Oxfam, doctors without borders and Actionid, have launched an appeal to the international community asking for an urgent intervention to put an end to the war in Gaza, after an independent UN commission denounced that “a genocide” is underway.
«While the Israeli government has ordered the mass displacement of Gaza City, which hosts almost a million people, the tragedy will start in an even more devastating phase if concrete measures are not taken. Gaza was deliberately made uninhabitable … yet the world leaders do not act. The facts are ignored. The testimonies are ignored. And as a direct consequence, other people are killed, “reads the letter.
By underlining that their work can go up to a certain point, international organizations have urged the states to “act now to prevent the destruction of life in the Gaza strip and to end brutality and employment”. They must “use any political, economic and legal tool at their disposal to intervene. Rhetoric and half measures are not enough. This moment requires a decisive action “