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Global outcry grows over Israel's killing of starving civilians in Gaza [View all]
UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-BalahSource: The Guardian
Israel is facing intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian efforts, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the “last lifelines keeping people alive [in the strip] are collapsing”.
An angry chorus of senior figures, among them the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and a senior Catholic cleric, expressed on Tuesday a growing sense of global horror over Israel’s actions.
“I spoke again with [the Israeli foreign minister] Gideon Saar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF [Israel Defense Forces] must stop killing people at distribution points,” the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, wrote on X. “The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible.”
She said “all options were on the table” if Israel does not deliver on aid pledges, but did not say what those options included.
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Guterres’ comments came hours after a hard-hitting joint statement on Monday by 27 western countries including the UK, France, Australia and Canada harshly criticising Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid and calling for an immediate end to the war.
An angry chorus of senior figures, among them the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and a senior Catholic cleric, expressed on Tuesday a growing sense of global horror over Israel’s actions.
“I spoke again with [the Israeli foreign minister] Gideon Saar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF [Israel Defense Forces] must stop killing people at distribution points,” the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, wrote on X. “The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible.”
She said “all options were on the table” if Israel does not deliver on aid pledges, but did not say what those options included.
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Guterres’ comments came hours after a hard-hitting joint statement on Monday by 27 western countries including the UK, France, Australia and Canada harshly criticising Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid and calling for an immediate end to the war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israel-bombs-who-facilities-in-gaza-as-global-outcry-grows
People, including babies and children, are dying from organ failure caused by starvation - at alarmingly accelerating rates over the last few days. Even doctors and medical staff are fainting on the job from hunger and exhaustion. A quarter of the population is facing near-famine with over 100,000 women and children at acute severe malnutrition. The last hope for salvation is being destroyed by Israeli forces: the critical humanitarian infrastructure at Deir al-Balah, including the WHO buildings destroyed in the last day.
Over a thousand people now have been butchered trying to get a sack of flour.
None of this is by accident.
Do the leaders of those 27 western countries that issues the joint "hard-hitting" statement yesterday have any intention of upholding their duties to prevent genocide under the Genocide Convention? Is that one of the "options" the EU has promised?
I suspect whatever option these "leaders" choose, it will be too little, too late. Any reckoning coming to them will not matter to those who have died and will die and the many more suffering agonies due to their inaction and/or complicity.
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