The Arab League and the African Union warned this Sunday against “an unprecedented genocide” in the Gaza Strip, if Israel carries out its threat and launches a ground offensive in the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.
The main leaders of both organizations urged the United Nations and the entire international community to take measures to avoid what they predict will be “a catastrophe”, “before it is too late”, in a joint statement released today.
The Arab League and the African Union agree in their “concern” about the Israeli ultimatum to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which involves the forced displacement of more than a million people, considering it a violation of international law.
Therefore, they called for an “immediate” cessation of the attacks and international coordination with the aim of “urgently” bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, a poor Palestinian territory where more than two million people live.
They also recalled that “the only guarantee of long-term security” for the entire Middle East region remains the solution of two states in peaceful coexistence, one Israeli and the other Palestinian.
Israel has been on high alert since October 7, when Palestinian fighters from the Islamist movement Hamas attacked the south of the country on several fronts from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and capturing another 155. , held in captivity in Gaza and some of them died, according to Hamas, by Israeli bombings.
It was an offensive supported by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Palestinian branch of Islamic Jihad.
Heavy Israeli retaliation has so far killed more than 2,670 people, including more than 700 children, and injured at least 9,600 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave controlled since 2007 by Hamas, a group classified as a terrorist organization by the United States. United States, the European Union and Israel.
Israel, which imposed a total siege on Gaza, cutting off water, fuel and electricity supplies, and plans a massive offensive in the north of that Palestinian territory, issued an ultimatum to the civilian population (around 1.1 million people) for him to go and head. to the south, a forced transfer that provoked protests from the international community and that the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that, for the most fragile groups, it could be “equivalent to a death penalty.”
Source: TSF
