Doctors Without Borders calls on the UN Security Council to end “its complicity in the massacre”.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called on the Security Council to “end its complicity in the massacre in Gaza”. With this, he begins a statement in which he considers that this UN body “must call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to lift the siege and ensure full assistance to the entire Gaza Strip.” As the same statement added, the Security Council's “inaction” and “the vetoes of member states, particularly the United States, so far make them complicit in the ongoing slaughter” and “this inaction has led to mass slaughter” of men, women and children.
“Since the seven-day ceasefire was broken, we have seen the resumption of indiscriminate killings and forced displacement on a shocking scale and intensity. Al-Aqsa Hospital alone admitted 1,149 emergency patients between December 1 and December 11, of which 350 arrived dead.” “On December 6, the hospital admitted more deceased patients than injured patients,” the organization added in the statement . “MSF medical staff in the Gaza Strip have witnessed and treated the medical consequences of the sustained and systematic atrocities of the last eight weeks. Israel's campaign of indiscriminate killings, denial of food and access to health care, and repeated forced relocations has made living conditions intolerable for more than two million people. People are on the streets and there are hardly any sanitary facilities in the rain. Médecins Sans Frontières teams are observing a significant increase in infectious diseases such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, skin infections and outbreaks of hepatitis. “The large-scale importation of vital humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip must be permitted immediately,” the NGO demands.
“Today the provision of help is simulated: it is nothing compared to the needs. Our colleagues feel helpless when they hear children telling them that they would rather die than continue to suffer. People are desperate for food due to the cruel siege that has been imposed “There must be a chance of survival. Our doctors can't do anything for the dead. Not acting now, not declaring a complete ceasefire and thereby ending the siege would be unforgivable,” warns Christopher Lockyear, international secretary of Doctors Without Borders. “We absolutely demand intransigence
The statement concludes: “Today the United Nations Security Council must call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and lift the siege. This responsibility lies with each of its members: history will judge the delay in stopping this massacre; basic humanity requires action.”