Beyond Conflict joins 111 aid agencies' call for end to Gaza food blockade

Beyond Conflict joins more than 100 international aid agencies warning of the spread of mass starvation in Gaza due to Israeli food aid blockades. We join 111 aid agency signatories including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam to call for Israel to allow full food aid supplies to be released to Gaza civilians. Food shortages are impacting all parts of the civilian population, particularly children, as well as the frontline workers and medics/doctors who serve them. The United Nations said this week that more than 1000 Palestinians have been killed since late May alone whilst trying to get food, since the UN was stopped from distributing aid by the Israeli government.  UN Secretary General, António Guterres, described what is happening in Gaza as a “horror show” .

We join the international call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the free flow of food and other aid led by the UN. Food and medical aid cannot be used as a weapon of war against civilians.