'Totally Insufficient': Groups Say Trickle of Gaza Aid No Match for Ongoing 'Mass Atrocities'

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'Collective punishment of two million people is a war crime and a moral outrage,' said one head of a medical relief group. 'The siege must end, a ceasefire must be secured, and aid must be allowed to reach any who need it.'

Emergency aid groups and relief experts denounced the tiny 'trickle' of humanitarian supplies that were finally allowed to pass through the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Saturday, especially as what was described by human rights watchdogs as a 'loss of civilian life at a scale we have not seen in the modern history of Israel and Palestine' continues inside the besieged territory.

'Without electricity, the lights will go out in hospitals, desalination and sewage plants will not function, and many more people will die.''Political leaders should remember that collective punishment of two million people is a war crime and a moral outrage,' she added. 'The siege must end, a ceasefire must be secured, and aid must be allowed to reach any who need it.

 

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