Oxfam statement on the escalation of hostilities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
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Civilians are once again paying the price for the failures of political leaders to negotiate a just and lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis. Instead, we are witnessing yet another cycle of death and destruction that brings us no closer to addressing the root causes of the crisis and drives further human rights violations, poverty and suffering, particularly for a lost generation of children and young Palestinians.
“Palestinians in Gaza have endured three successive wars just in the last ten years,” said Laila Barhoum, Oxfam’s Policy Advisor in Gaza. “We are tired. Day after day we watch the bombs fall on homes where our friends and family live and buildings where our colleagues work, wondering if we will be next. And day after day we wait in vain for the unequivocal condemnation from the international community that never comes. When a ceasefire is eventually de
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Israeli forces run during clashes with Israeli Arabs in the Israeli mixed city of Lod, Israel, Tuesday, May 11,2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)
Israel killed several Hamas commanders and blew up a 14-floor high-rise in the Gaza Strip as the Jewish State stepped up its military campaign on Wednesday.
“This was only the beginning. We will inflict blows on them that they have never dreamed of,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Dozens have died in the latest flare-up of violence – most of them in Gaza – which has put Hamas and Israel on the brink on all-out war.
Thursday, 13 May 2021 11:55 AM MYT
Smoke and flames rise during Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza May 12, 2021. Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, May 13 ― Tunisia, Norway and China have requested another emergency UN Security Council meeting be scheduled tomorrow on the worsening hostilities between Israel and Palestinians, despite ongoing US resistance for the body to take a role in the conflict.
The session would be public and would include participation by Israel and the Palestinians, diplomats told AFP yesterday.
The Council has already held two closed-door videoconferences since Monday, with the United States ― a close Israel ally ― opposing adoption of a joint declaration, which it said would not “help de-escalate” the situation.