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EMERGENCY: Declare Gaza a Famine-Stricken Area and End the Genocide NOW !
2 July 2024
Bagnolet: june 26 , 2024
Here below is the latest petition to declare Gaza Strip a FAMINE ZONE and to end the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people. Every action counts at this moment. We ask all our members, allies, and friends to read the petition and sign it. *We must act NOW. Read our declaration from La Via Campesina and sign the petition.*
*La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, representing over 200 million peasants, calls on all social movements, civil society organizations, human rights defenders and activists to support the appeal to the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority to immediately declare Gaza a famine-stricken area due to famine, https://viacampesina.org/en/recognize-gaza-as-a-famine-zone-la-via-campesina-issues-solidarity-statement-with-the-palestinian-people/ environmental pollution, and the spread of diseases and the severe restriction of the humanitarian aid.* The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority must adopt this declaration and coordinate global and local efforts in partnership with Palestinian civil society to develop an immediate plan to address these impacts, elevate emergency relief levels for citizens in the sector, and push toward accountability and prosecution of the occupation for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for more than eight months and has intensified in Rafah, home to over a million internally displaced people. The actions and policies imposed by the Israeli occupation on the people of Gaza are causing untold suffering from severe food shortages, a continuous decline in nutrition levels, widespread malnutrition among children, and increased mortality rates due to diseases caused by hunger and malnutrition, along with the difficulty of accessing medical and healthcare services. The environmental pollution resulting from the destruction of sewage systems, the inability of municipalities to remove waste, the presence of thousands of bodies under the rubble, and the weak humanitarian response and provision of necessary aid to those in need, has worsened the situation and suffering of the people of Gaza.
*According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Gaza Strip Targeted Analysis, May 31, 2024 report https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf36bU49jjyXFVoCsU_Wjjh8FazVEKZyNMu8IkL0bWWDT5Gpw/viewform* *all three Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) thresholds for Famine (food consumption, acute malnutrition, and mortality) were likely met or surpassed in northern Gaza in April. This situation will persist through at least in July if there is not a fundamental change in how food assistance is distributed and accessed after entering Gaza.* While food aid and informal market supplies increased in March and April, it is unlikely that over 80 percent of the northern Gaza population averted catastrophic hunger. Amid severe hunger, disease, and inadequate nutrition treatment and prevention, it is possible that acute malnutrition and mortality levels were above the IPC thresholds in April. Many children have died from hunger-related causes and government decision makers should act urgently to mitigate loss of life.
The situation in southern Gaza is critical too because of the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Rafah which is seriously disrupting food distribution channels and worsening access to food, bringing *the south into Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) between May and July*. The report asserts that food and nutrition assistance have been key to preventing Famine (IPC Phase 5) in the south to date, and it is possible a sustained, large-scale disruption of assistance would lead to Famine in the period beyond July.
We, therefore, call on all organizations, movements, human rights defenders, and supporters to sign this petition https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf36bU49jjyXFVoCsU_Wjjh8FazVEKZyNMu8IkL0bWWDT5Gpw/viewform to urge the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority to declare Gaza a famine-stricken area and take the necessary measures to protect its inhabitants.
SIGN THE PETITION https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf36bU49jjyXFVoCsU_Wjjh8FazVEKZyNMu8IkL0bWWDT5Gpw/viewform
*Long live the struggles of the Palestinian people! *
*La Via Campesina*
This post is also available in Español https://viacampesina.org/es/urgente-declarar-gaza-zona-afectada-por-la-hambruna-y-acabar-ya-con-el-genocidio/ and Français https://viacampesina.org/fr/urgent-declarez-gaza-comme-zone-de-famine-et-mettez-fin-au-genocide-immediatement/.
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