21-10-2023, 10:06 AM
According to medicin sans frontieres. They're calling for an aid corridor.
I'd like to think Israel might find sufficent compassion to do so but with their present leader it seems unlikely.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500502/...d-corridor
"A international medical charity has condemned the bombing of a hospital in Gaza as 'horrific' and 'brutal'.
Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia head of programs Simon Eccleshall told Checkpoint it did not matter who was responsible.
"MSF is truly horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians, and we've been seeing this perpetrated by Hamas in Israel and now the Israeli Defence Force through the indiscriminate bombing of north and south Gaza."
On Sunday, local residents had been warned to evacuate north Gaza and move south, but MSF had observed that there was no safe passage, and no place for people to move to, he said.
"The borders are closed, the bombing is relentless and for people facing the choice of leaving their home for a perilous journey, you can understand why leaving is not possible, particularly for the patients that MSF is trying to save.
"Hospitals cannot be emptied at short notice, and people can't survive without electricity and water."
MSF was no longer able to conduct medical activities in the north of Gaza, he said.
"Over the last 10 days we have moved our international staff to the south of Gaza, where they're looking at exiting through the Rafah border crossing if and when that opens up."
This would enable MSF to bring in new medical staff - "ones that are not exhausted" - as well as new supplies to support the immediate needs of the population of Gaza.
There were still a large number of local medical staff providing life-saving support in the hospitals but communication with them was increasingly difficult, he said.
MSF was calling for the creation of an aid corridor and protected spaces for Gazan.
"It's about providing a cessation in hostilities to allow life-saving support to come in and to give people passage to a place of safety."
Really,"Swords of iron?!" They sound like foolish little boys playing idiotic war games.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500524/...post-war-p
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500524/...n-for-gaza
"Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight, with no clear plan for how to govern the ravaged Palestinian enclave even if it triumphs on the battlefield.
Codenamed "Operation Swords of Iron", the military campaign will be unmatched in its ferocity and unlike anything Israel has carried out in Gaza in the past, according to eight regional and Western officials with knowledge of the conflict who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The immediate Israeli strategy, said three regional officials familiar with discussions between the US and Middle Eastern leaders, is to destroy Gaza's infrastructure, even at the cost of high civilian casualties, push the enclave's people towards the Egyptian border and go after Hamas by blowing up the labyrinth of underground tunnels the group has built to conduct its operations.
Arab officials are also alarmed that Israel has not set out a clear plan for the future of the enclave, ruled by Hamas since 2006 and home to 2.3 million people.
"Israel doesn't have an endgame for Gaza. Their strategy is to drop thousands of bombs, destroy everything and go in, but then what? They have no exit strategy for the day after," said one regional security source.
The "vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas", he said. "Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people." said Biden.
Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have said they will wipe out Hamas in retribution for the attack, the deadliest in Israel's 75-year-old history.
What will follow is less defined."
I'd like to think Israel might find sufficent compassion to do so but with their present leader it seems unlikely.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500502/...d-corridor
"A international medical charity has condemned the bombing of a hospital in Gaza as 'horrific' and 'brutal'.
Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia head of programs Simon Eccleshall told Checkpoint it did not matter who was responsible.
"MSF is truly horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians, and we've been seeing this perpetrated by Hamas in Israel and now the Israeli Defence Force through the indiscriminate bombing of north and south Gaza."
On Sunday, local residents had been warned to evacuate north Gaza and move south, but MSF had observed that there was no safe passage, and no place for people to move to, he said.
"The borders are closed, the bombing is relentless and for people facing the choice of leaving their home for a perilous journey, you can understand why leaving is not possible, particularly for the patients that MSF is trying to save.
"Hospitals cannot be emptied at short notice, and people can't survive without electricity and water."
MSF was no longer able to conduct medical activities in the north of Gaza, he said.
"Over the last 10 days we have moved our international staff to the south of Gaza, where they're looking at exiting through the Rafah border crossing if and when that opens up."
This would enable MSF to bring in new medical staff - "ones that are not exhausted" - as well as new supplies to support the immediate needs of the population of Gaza.
There were still a large number of local medical staff providing life-saving support in the hospitals but communication with them was increasingly difficult, he said.
MSF was calling for the creation of an aid corridor and protected spaces for Gazan.
"It's about providing a cessation in hostilities to allow life-saving support to come in and to give people passage to a place of safety."
Really,"Swords of iron?!" They sound like foolish little boys playing idiotic war games.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500524/...post-war-p
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/500524/...n-for-gaza
"Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight, with no clear plan for how to govern the ravaged Palestinian enclave even if it triumphs on the battlefield.
Codenamed "Operation Swords of Iron", the military campaign will be unmatched in its ferocity and unlike anything Israel has carried out in Gaza in the past, according to eight regional and Western officials with knowledge of the conflict who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The immediate Israeli strategy, said three regional officials familiar with discussions between the US and Middle Eastern leaders, is to destroy Gaza's infrastructure, even at the cost of high civilian casualties, push the enclave's people towards the Egyptian border and go after Hamas by blowing up the labyrinth of underground tunnels the group has built to conduct its operations.
Arab officials are also alarmed that Israel has not set out a clear plan for the future of the enclave, ruled by Hamas since 2006 and home to 2.3 million people.
"Israel doesn't have an endgame for Gaza. Their strategy is to drop thousands of bombs, destroy everything and go in, but then what? They have no exit strategy for the day after," said one regional security source.
The "vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas", he said. "Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people." said Biden.
Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have said they will wipe out Hamas in retribution for the attack, the deadliest in Israel's 75-year-old history.
What will follow is less defined."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)