How Much Longer Can We Survive Like This? An Aid Worker in Gaza Cries Out : Damilola Banjo / PassBlue

Article shared by Margherita Amodeo

I am more than shocked, flabbergasted, outree at the UN’s lack of decisive remedial action to put a stop to the killings, torture, destruction of Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. IT HAS TO STOP.

HOW ABOUT IF WE WERE TO WRITE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYING THAT THE UN IS DIVESTING ITSELF OF ITS RAISON D’ETRE, ITS MANDATE, ITS ROLE IF IT DOES NOT ACT. THE UN HAS TO ACT. NOBODY ELSE WILL. THE SG SHOULD GO TO GAZA NOW!

AND WHAT ABOUT THE HEADS OF THE DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS WHO TAKE THEMSELVES SO SERIOUSLY? WHY ARE THEY SILENT?

Let me know what you think.

Best,
Margherita

Click here for the article in PassBlue

Excerpts:
"A senior UN official confirmed on Monday in a private briefing with journalists that aid operations in Gaza were paused as efforts are underway to relocate over 90 international staff members, along with more than 140 national staff and their dependents. The UN had moved its operations from Rafah, in Gaza’s far south, to Deir al Balah after a similar evacuation order in May.



“As of this morning, we’re not operating in Gaza,” said the senior official, who requested anonymity. “My team on the ground has been directed to find solutions. If that means hunkering down for 24 to 48 hours, we’ll do that, but we’re not leaving.”

More than 24 humanitarian organizations have been forced to evacuate from Gaza in recent weeks, worsening the dire situation, according to Mercy Corps.

Thirty nongovernmental organizations expressed “serious concern” on Tuesday that the latest “forced relocations orders” by Israel have squeezed civilians and humanitarians into an area that is now less than 38,000 square meters"