Palestine

The undersigned international legal and human rights organizations express their deep outrage and categorical rejection of the recent statements made by the U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Steve Whitkoff, in which he denied the existence of famine in the Gaza Strip. 

Such remarks blatantly ignore the well-documented realities on the ground and the numerous international reports confirming an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe that threatens the lives of over two million Palestinians. 

In the devastated Gaza Strip, suffering goes far beyond the relentless roar of bombings and Israeli air raids. Another war is raging—quieter but equally ruthless: a war of starvation, systematic and deadly. 

June 4 marks the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, a commemoration that takes on particularly tragic significance this year, as the children of Gaza endure a daily nightmare. Israeli deadly attacks pursue them even into displacement zones, the streets, tents, and even their hospital beds.