"End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm." Philippe Lazzarini

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 Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

#Gaza has been the battleground of a fierce & rampant information war. 

Dis-information continues to be used as a tool to distract from the atrocities in the war-torn enclave. 

The first target was @UNRWA followed by other UN agencies, the media & health institutions. 

The recent denial of famine in #Gaza as well as of the conclusions of the UN commission of inquiry released this week are the latest examples. They aim at undermining world experts assessments + analysis & at promoting narratives denying atrocities + dehumanizing Palestinians. 

Meanwhile, the heroic work of Palestinian journalists continues against all odds as the Israeli military operations expand. 

It’s time to let international journalists into Gaza to support their Palestinian colleagues before their voices are also silenced. 

Time to report independently on events.

https://amp.dw.com/en/israel-propaganda-downplays-gaza-food-scarcity-fact-check/a-73875380 

 

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

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Sep 11

At least 2,000 desperate & hungry people have been killed while seeking food aid. The vast majority were killed near sites of the so called “Gaza humanitarian foundation”. 

 

This deadly mechanism is manned by mercenaries including anti-Muslim gangsters @BBC 

 

Addressing famine in #Gaza requires uninterrupted, at scale & safe access to people in need wherever they are. The UN, including @UNRWA + partners have the resources & the expertise. 

 

Let us do our job

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo 

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

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Sep 9

#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. 

 

Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi. 

 

There is no safe place in Gaza, let alone a humanitarian zone. It is a large and growing camp concentrating hungry Palestinians in despair. 

 

Warnings of #famine have fallen on deaf ears. 

 

Will warnings of this deepening catastrophe also fall on deaf ears? #Ceasefire, before it is way too late. 

 

End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm.

 

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

It has been 18 months since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of genocide, including acting in full co-operation with the United Nations, to ensure the unhindered provision of urgently needed basic services & humanitarian assistance. 

 

The UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded in its report yesterday that: “Far from cooperating with the United Nations […] Israel responded by proscribing and excluding the principal UN agency providing aid and humanitarian assistance, @UNRWA”. 

 

In finding that the State of Israel has committed genocide, the Commission stated that through: “interconnected political and politicised measures”, including the establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Israel has blocked and obstructed trusted aid agencies (including UNRWA) from bringing in essential and life-saving aid, for the purposes of bringing about “the physical destruction of the Palestinians in #Gaza through unlivable conditions of life in the Gaza Strip”. 

 

I urge all Member States to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza & facilitate the unfettered deployment of the United Nations’ humanitarian operations – including UNRWA’s expertise with its unparalleled aid distribution network – to reverse #famine & provide critical assistance to people in need. #CeasefireNow

 

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf 

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