Arab League Chief Launches Urgent Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, Announces Emergency Relief Network
Amr Yehia
Nabil Fahmy, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, launched an urgent humanitarian appeal to support the Gaza Strip, calling on the international community to shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities amid the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the enclave.
“Gaza continues to bleed from pain, hunger, destruction, and a severe shortage of medicine, water and food. All aspects of human life have come to a halt as a result of the policy pursued by Israel, the occupying power, against more than two million Palestinians since 7 October 2023,” Fahmy said.
He warned that with the arrival of winter, the suffering of thousands of displaced people has renewed, as rains and floods destroyed what remained of the fragile infrastructure, flooded and destroyed 40,000 shelters for displaced persons and 70,000 tents, and affected more than 200,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including the wounded, children, women, the elderly and the sick, leaving thousands of families in the open without shelter, heating, or even adequate blankets.
“In light of these worsening conditions that threaten life in the Gaza Strip, I call today, urgently, on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities,” Fahmy said.
He also called on Arab and international humanitarian organizations to take immediate and coordinated action to provide all possible forms of support to save the lives of victims and those affected in Gaza, and to deliver urgent and necessary relief and humanitarian aid, in light of humanitarian conditions “that history will not forget and future generations will not forgive.”
Fahmy announced that the League of Arab States is taking the initiative to establish a Humanitarian Relief Network for Emergency Situations, inviting all parties concerned with humanitarian affairs to join the initiative.
The initiative comes within the framework of the League’s keenness to take immediate and urgent action to respond to humanitarian crises in the Arab region, in coordination with all relevant authorities in member states and all parties concerned with humanitarian work.
Within the framework of this initiative, the League of Arab States will immediately communicate with all those responding to this urgent humanitarian appeal to support the Palestinian people, he added.
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