Instead of running relief services, our staff are running for their lives. We need a ceasefire now, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB
Children in a destroyed school that was run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees , Deir al-Balah, Gaza, 18 October 2023.Children in a destroyed school that was run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees , Deir al-Balah, Gaza, 18 October 2023.Instead of running relief services, our staff are running for their lives. We need a ceasefire now – for the sakes of both Palestinians and Israelisto allow aid into Gaza from Egypt.
The humanitarian rulebook has been thrown out, and polite pleas from politicians to “minimise civilian fatalities” are naive at best, and at worst seem blind to the unimaginable horrors already taking place in Gaza.
My family are trapped in Gaza with only salty water to drink – we need a ceasefire to let aid in and people out | Nadia El-Nakla. That Hamas is holding hostages is truly appalling; the atrocities committed by them against Israeli civilians heartbreaking. Neither fact, however, justifies the collective punishment of 2 million people or negates the responsibility of Israel to meet these basic needs for civilians.
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