Belgium’s PM Blasts Israel's 'Inadmissible Tactics of Starvation' in Gaza
De Croo posted a photo of a meeting with UNRWA’s Philippe Lazzarini and pledged his country’s continued support for the UN agency
Alexander De Croo, the Belgian prime minister, criticized Israel’s unacceptable “tactics of starvation” in Gaza in a post on X Saturday and said the country “urgently needs to provide more humanitarian access” to the enclave.
De Croo posted a photo of a meeting with UNRWA’s Philippe Lazzarini and pledged his country’s continued support for the UN agency that the Biden administration cut off from funding based on flimsy allegations from Israel that its staffers played a role in the 7 October attack.
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“Belgium continues to support UNRWA. It is the backbone of aid to the people in Gaza. We expressed condolences to Lazzarini for over 160 staff who have been killed,” he posted.
De Croo visited Amman, Jordan, on Saturday and noted that there is a “very large population [in Gaza] at risk of famine,” Politico reported.
TRENDPOST: There is nowhere else on planet earth where a country can deliberately starve and bomb millions and not only get away with it, but get the full support from Washington.
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders, addressed the United Nations Security Council last month and called on an immediate ceasefire, which, of course, the U.S. rejected.
“The humanitarian response in Gaza today is an illusion, a convenient illusion that perpetuates a narrative that this war is being waged in line with international laws,” he said. He continued, “There is no health system to speak of left in Gaza. Israel’s military has dismantled hospital after hospital. What remains is so little in the face of such carnage. It is preposterous. The excuse given is that medical facilities have been used for military purposes, yet we have seen zero independently verified evidence of this.”
He continued, “Medical teams have added a new acronym to their vocabulary: WNSF—wounded child, no surviving family. Children who survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries but the invisible ones, too—those of repeated displacement, constant fear, and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes. These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us they would prefer to die.”
By its cutting off food and essential supplies, Israel has not hidden the fact that it is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.