GAZA, May 7, 2025 (WAFA) – 108 Arab human rights networks called on the UN Security Council to halt the genocide, end the blockade, and save lives in the Gaza Strip.
In a petition addressed to the Security Council, they called on it to fulfill its legal, moral, and humanitarian obligations by taking immediate action to halt the crime of genocide, halt the systematic killing by starvation and deprivation of water, lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip, which constitutes collective punishment criminalized by international law, and allow the entry of all humanitarian and relief supplies, goods, and fuel allocated to operate hospitals and the water station as quickly as possible.
They also called on the Security Council to take immediate action to impose international sanctions on the Israeli occupation, halt the crime of genocide and starvation, fully lift the blockade, and suspend the membership of the occupying state of Israel in the General Assembly.
They stated that the Gaza Strip is facing an ongoing war of genocide for the 576th day, amidst dire humanitarian and health conditions. This is due to the continued tightening of the Israeli occupation forces' blockade of the Gaza Strip for the 64th day, the closure of all crossings to various humanitarian aid, basic supplies, food, and medicine, and the complete prevention of fuel entry into the Strip.
This has led to an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian and health conditions, undermining all aspects of life and basic services, such as a severe shortage of water supplies, the shutdown of sewage treatment plants, the near-total collapse of health services, and the cessation of hospital operations.
Quoting relief organizations and the United Nations, they indicated that 91% of the Gaza Strip's population is classified as in the crisis phase of food insecurity (Phase 3 and above), including 345,000 in the highest phase of food insecurity (Phase 5). Ninety-two percent of children between the ages of six months and two years and breastfeeding mothers are not getting enough food, exposing them to lifelong health complications.
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