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  • One year on, the world has failed civilians in Gaza, with terrifying global consequences: Islamic Relief Canada Statement
One year on, the world has failed civilians in Gaza, with terrifying global consequences: Islamic Relief Canada Statement
04
Oct
2024

One year on, the world has failed civilians in Gaza, with terrifying global consequences: Islamic Relief Canada Statement

Written by  Islamic Relief Canada
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4 October, 2024 One year on, the world has failed civilians in Gaza, with terrifying global consequences

The world’s complete failure to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza over the past year is doing irreparable damage to international law, with terrifying global consequences, Islamic Relief Canada warns as the wider Middle East region stands on the precipice of disaster.

Over the past year we have seen international law violated every day with total impunity. Israel’s indiscriminate and relentless attacks have killed and wounded civilians at a faster rate than anywhere this century. Israel continues to use starvation as a weapon of war, blocking food from reaching starving children. Families are ordered from one area to another like pawns on a chessboard, then bombed in the schools and tents where they are told to shelter. Entire neighborhoods are now rubble, and schools, hospitals and religious sites have all come under unprecedented attack. More humanitarian workers, medics, teachers and journalists have been killed in Gaza than anywhere else. Warnings of ethnic cleansing, genocide and war crimes continue to be ignored as each day brings new horror and families are squeezed into ever-shrinking areas. Gaza’s entire society is being destroyed.

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International Humanitarian Law (IHL), or ‘the law of war’, was established to protect civilians all over the world from the impact of conflict. If these laws are not upheld consistently and are allowed to be violated so blatantly, there is even less chance of holding warring parties to account and protecting civilians elsewhere. Millions of lives affected by conflicts all over the world are at stake.

Now as the crisis spreads, Islamic Relief Canada continues to call for an immediate and lasting ceasefire across the region. International governments must use all their leverage to demand an end to attacks on civilians and violations of international law, including by ending all arms sales that fuel the violence. Ultimately Islamic Relief Canada wants to see a lasting peace where all Palestinians and Israelis can live in safety and dignity, and have their same fundamental human rights upheld. We believe that this will not ultimately be possible until there is an end to the Israeli Occupation.

Usama Khan, CEO of Islamic Relief Canada shares: "Canada has a crucial duty to uphold international law and protect civilians. As the crisis in Gaza intensifies and spills over into Lebanon, the Canadian government must urgently apply unyielding pressure on Israel to stop these attacks. Every moment of inaction prolongs the suffering of innocent families and undermines our shared humanity.”

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is virtually unparalleled. An Islamic Relief aid worker in Gaza, whose name is withheld for his safety, says: “This has been a year of torture, famine, loss and annihilation. After one year I still don’t see any ceasefire on the horizon and Israel blocks aid with impunity as the world watches. Almost everyone is displaced. My own house is damaged and uninhabitable, my sisters and brothers have lost their homes, and all my colleagues at Islamic Relief have lost theirs. Our Islamic Relief office is gone, as are my children’s schools, the mosque I used to pray at, the hospital where my kids were born, the restaurants I liked, and my Christian neighbours’ church. Israel is systematically destroying our lives. We search everywhere for medicine for my mum’s diabetes but can’t find it anywhere. My friend is suffering so badly from kidney stones that they can hardly move, but there is no treatment. I can’t even find paracetamol and Israel blocks wounded people from leaving Gaza for treatment.”

Despite the enormous challenges, Islamic Relief staff and local partners have delivered aid almost every single day over the past year. This includes cooking and distributing more than 40 million hot meals for displaced families who have nothing else to eat, providing water to 110,000 people a day, supplying nutritional supplements to 35,000 pregnant women and young children every 2 weeks, and running psychosocial support sessions for over 94,000 children.

But the scale of the crisis is almost incomprehensible. One in every 16 people in Gaza are now killed or wounded, with more than 41,000 people killed and 96,000 injured. Around 1.9 million people – 90% of the population – are now displaced from their homes, most of them having to move multiple times as nowhere is safe. 60% of homes and 68% of roads are damaged or destroyed, and more than half of hospitals and health facilities have been forced to shut down. 85% of schools have been bombed, hundreds of teachers killed, and 625,000 children have now been out of school for a whole year, with enormous implications for future generations. The relentless crisis is having a devastating psychological toll.

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Almost all civilians are facing severe shortages of food, with young children at immediate risk of starvation and facing long-term impacts of malnutrition such as stunted growth and impaired cognitive development.

This year-long massacre must not be allowed to continue for a moment longer. Decisive and impactful action from the Canadian government is long overdue, diplomatic pressure must be applied on Israel.

To support Islamic Relief Canada's work in Gaza, click here

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