Humanitarian aid parachute on Gaza by the Arab Emirates (Ansa photo).
Gaza dies of hunger. In the strip the humanitarian catastrophe has reached unsustainable, desperate levels. According to Save the Children, the number of children under five years affected by acute malnutrition visited in the NGO clinics in Gaza has increased by 10 times in four meYes, while the childhood deaths due to hunger increase and the global humanitarian authority for food crises warned that the famine is being manifested in the strip. Families are forced to look for food among the waste. «Gaza’s children are starving before our eyes. We are witnessing record rates of malnutrition after almost five months of total siege by the Israeli government that blocks the entry of aid. This is a hunger imposed in an deliberated way. It is unacceptable that children are starving, by paying under our eyes and want to die, while tons of life -saving food and nutritional stocks, which could reverse a crisis entirely caused by man, wait just beyond the border or even inside Gaza, “he said Ahmad Alhendawi, regional director of Save the Children for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa.
Pushed by the pressures of the international community, Israel decreed “tactical breaks “of 10 hours a day to allow the launch of aid to the Palestinians. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu denied that hunger is in the Gaza strip. Meanwhile, some European countries have passed on to action. Germany, as announced by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, is organizing the sending of humanitarian aid through a “air bridge” in collaboration with Jordan Which, in recent days, together with the Arab Emirates, has already parachute food and essential goods. Berlin sent two military planes to Jordan, a base from which humanitarian missions start. France also said he was available to help, announcing the sending of humanitarian convoys by land.
Meanwhile, the front of the countries that move towards the recognition of the state of Palestine is increasingly vast, relaunching the solution of the two peoples and two states, returned to the center of the international debate. Last week, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that France will recognize the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly. France and 14 other nations have launched a collective appeal to all the countries of the world to commit themselves to recognizing the Palestinian state. The answer came from the British premier Keir Starmer who, during the meeting of his government’s cabinet, announced that he proceeded with the recognition next September, unless Israel takes steps to put an end to Gaza’s dramatic situation.
The reaction of the Israeli Premier Netanyahu It was not long in coming: “Starmer rewards Hamas’ monstrous terrorism,” said Netanyahu. Words to which the British Transport Minister replied Heidi Alexander: «This is not a reward for Hamas. Hamas is a cowardly terrorist organization that has committed frightening atrocities. Instead, it concerns the Palestinian people. It concerns those children we see in Gaza starry. “
Since 2012 Palestine has been a non -member observer of the United Nations General Assembly. Among the 193 members of the United Nations are 147 those who already recognize the Palestinian state. The European Union currently does not recognize Palestine as a state. And no member of the G7 recognizes it. Within the EU Sweden, Slovenia, Ireland and Spain are the only ones so far to have implemented recognition since they have become members of the Union. Seven countries had already done so before joining the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. Among the G20 countries, they recognize the Palestinian Argentine state, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Türkiye. The Vatican recognized Palestine in 2015, appointing it as a state for the first time in a bilateral treaty. The holy seat pushes for the recognition of the Palestinian state, as the Vatican Secretary of State reiterated Pietro Parolin: “That is the solution, that is, the recognition of the two states that live near each other independently and security”.
(High Ansa photo: Emmanuel Macron and Keir Stamer)
