With Israeli brutal attacks entering its second week, over 200 Palestinians, including 58 children, have been martyred in the Gaza Strip, under a shameful silence of the international community.
The entire world knows that it is not the first and may not be the last time that Israel continues committing massacres against children, women, and defenseless civilians since 1948, and the inaction of the international community is taken as granting immunity to the occupation forces.
Following its destruction of tower building housing the Al-Jazeera, AP and other media offices, it is more than barbaric that Israel yesterday also shelled and destroyed offices of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), unfortunately all these are passing without immediate and strong response from international community and humanitarian organizations.
The UN Security Council is lingering and unable to act while the State of Qatar is engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to end the repeated Israeli acts of aggression against civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. But parallel to the diplomatic course, Qatari efforts to support the Palestinians continue as the current aggression has exacerbated the already deteriorating humanitarian situation, where Qatar’s Gaza Reconstruction Committee, QRCS and Qatar Charity are working on the ground to meet the urgent needs of the distressed population of Gaza.
In response to ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Jerusalem, Qatar’s Gaza Reconstruction Committee began yesterday distributing urgent relief aid to the families of the martyrs and those affected in the Gaza Strip due to the current conditions that the Strip is going through. The Chairman of Qatar’s Gaza Reconstruction Committee Ambassador Mohammed Al Emadi explained that the cash assistance is provided to the families of martyrs in all five governorates of the Gaza Strip and owners of completely or partially destroyed homes that have become uninhabitable and the aid extended to hundreds of families of martyrs and families whose homes were damaged.
According to the QRCS, $1m was allocated as an urgent response to secure the necessary needs via the provision of medicines and medical consumables to keep pace with the acute consumption of these materials in the current situation.
Qatari support for the cause is as old as the Palestinian issue itself and Qatar reaffirmed its firm position, not only through words but actions on ground, and will continue supporting the Palestinian cause until the Palestinians regain all of their rights by end of Israeli occupation and establishment of the State of Palestine with East Al Quds as its capital on the borders of 1967.
