The head of the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) slammed the US for vetoing a Gaza ceasefire resolution in testimony at the UN Security Council on Thursday and detailed the horrors Palestinian children are facing in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege.
“We are appalled by the willingness of the United States to use its powers as a permanent Council member to obstruct efforts to adopt the most evident of resolutions: one demanding an immediate and sustained ceasefire,” said MSF Secretary-General Christopher Lockyear.
“Three times this Council has had an opportunity to vote for the ceasefire that is so desperately needed and three times the United States has used its veto power,” he said. “A new draft resolution by the United States ostensibly calls for a ceasefire. However, this is misleading at best.”
The resolution that’s being drafted by the US calls for a “temporary ceasefire” if Israeli hostages are released, which is essentially Israel’s position. It leaves open the possibility of Israel restarting its military operations after the truce.
Describing the situation for Palestinian children, Lockyear said medical teams have a new acronym: “WCNSF—wounded child, no surviving family.” He said after seeing their family members killed, some children as young as five years old said they no longer wanted to live.
“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,” he said.
So far, the US-backed Israeli slaughter in Gaza has killed over 29,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 69,000. About two-thirds of the casualties are women and children. Despite the massive civilian casualty rate, the US continues to provide unconditional military support.
Israel’s killing its own Israeli hostages. There won’t be any left.
When you’re being openly and bluntly denounced by Médecins Sans Frontière, you should probably take it as an opportunity to consider whether you really don’t care at all what the world thinks of you.
Columbus landed in the Americas 12 October 1492 and thus began five centuries of European exploitation, colonization and genocide of the world’s indigenous peoples. It’s an apposite ending to western civilization supremacy that Israel should be writing it’s last chapter in the bigotry and blood of genocide.
An ugly history to be sure.
this is a tired trope and tying this narrative anti-war is counterproductive. we are all colonizers. got a house with a title deed with your name on it? what do you do if an indigenous person shows up for his land? you run to the sovereign. to the state, to protect your land title. we are ALL colonizers.
We’re not talking about 1492 or 1619 or 1776 or even 1945. We’re talking about brutal War crimes that are happening right now before our own eyes in 2024.
I don’t know your ‘We’s
MSF, are you saying that what you see Israel doing to the Palestinians is actual genocide or not? I want to hear it from the bone in your tongue. Simple: Yes, or No?
…Israel & the US…
Fixed, no charge.
Thank you! You completed me!
These children are not just suffering themselves. They are time bombs, set to haunt the future with their reactions to their pain. Israel with US help is making far worse problems than we had before.
However these children strike out one day, it will be “provoked” and fully expected. Justified. Those whom we know will be hurt will suffer then for what is now done to these children, caused by us, not by these children.
Only if they can survive the US-made Israeli bombs. Israel has been killing the children intentionally just for this reason you mentioned above…!
Even the organized industrialized killing by Germany could not kill everyone, and the survivors rebounded.
And woman, thereby efficiently disposing of the factory before production.
Not a student of genocide thus I wonder if Israel is breaking new ground in the business of genocide? They’re certainly obtained the apex of any list I could make of World Monsters.
This genocide will be recorded in history as a dark era of humanity contrary to Israel belief that it would be forgotten after it’s over…!
Just a reminder.
“Proceeding with a vote today was wishful and irresponsible, and so while we cannot support a resolution that would put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy, we look forward to engaging on a text that we believe will address so many of the concerns we all share,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
I hope that bitch read this:
“These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us they would prefer to die,” he said.
She is an amazing piece of work … how do these people live with themselves?
If you have no connection with the human part of yourself, it’s easy as hell.
It would be wasted time. Like many in the Biden foreign policy camp, this individual is just one more sociopath.
Appalling and shameful for the Biden administration to abuse its power as a permanent UN Security Council member to defend a genocide in Gaza.
The guy who bankrolls a holocaust is just as guilty as his agent who carries it out.
Biden belongs at the Hague. Full stop.
At least the US is still backed by Micronesia.
Where is the United Nation ? United Nations Doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) enables foreign military intervention if it will stop large-scale human rights abuses.
With the differences between the nations we are observing currently which make up the Disunited Nations, it seems the new multi-polar world requires multi-UN organizations…! At least Two… one West and one East…!
I remember a time when they use to tell us that U.N. was a body that settle our difference thru negotiation and peace and not thur war. It’s the League of Nations all over again.