25 Countries Unite to Demand Immediate End to Gaza War and Access for Humanitarian Aid
The UK and 25 international partners issued a joint statement on Monday, calling on “Israel” to immediately end the war in the Gaza Strip and to promptly lift restrictions on the flow of aid.
In their statement, Italy, Japan, Australia, Canada, Denmark, and other countries said more than 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid and condemned the “drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.”
The majority of those killed were in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, which the Zionist occupation backed to take over aid distribution in Gaza.
“The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability, and deprives Gazans of human dignity,” the countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement.
The signatories called on the “Israeli government” to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life-saving work safely and effectively.
The statement also rejected proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a so-called “humanitarian city,” calling them completely unacceptable.
“We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel’s Civil Administration, if implemented, would divide a Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermining the two-state solution,” the source said, adding that “settlement building across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop.”
The signatories also reaffirmed their “complete support” for the efforts of the US, Qatar, and Egypt to achieve an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire.
