Gaza: A Call for Global Solidarity and Action by Dr Asmaa Selim

We strongly condemn all the acts of murder, destruction, and gross human rights violations being committed in Gaza and all occupied territories by the Zionist army forces, supported and backed by the United States. These criminal acts, including murder, annihilation, bombing, destruction, starvation, and displacement of our Palestinian brothers, constitute a major crime and a blatant violation of international law, global peace, justice, and human rights.
A fundamental principle that cannot be compromised is the respect for human dignity and the provision of dignified treatment. Arab, Islamic, and international countries must take a courageous and decisive stance against this unjust war and criminal violations, including the killing of children, women, and the elderly, besieging and starving innocent people, bombing hospitals, schools, and mosques, and demolishing homes and everything in Palestine. All these heinous acts require all countries and peoples to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers, who are being attacked unjustly by the Zionist-American enemy, and to stop the seizure of Arab land and displacement of people from their homeland.
To stop such a brutal war and make clear distinctions between right and wrong, the world must speak out and act. It should not tolerate further silence and indifference to the ongoing assassinations, bombing, destruction, and violations.
Achieving justice and upholding international law is the cornerstone for building just countries that respect human rights and maintain human dignity. Anything less is cowardice, fear, and a meaningless life. If these tenets are not upheld, there is no need for these nations’ leadership or survival at the helm. This shameful and cowardly silence from Arab, Islamic, and international countries renders them weak and humiliated, with a paralyzed present and an uncertain future… and soon, they will face their inevitable fate!
(And We desired to bestow favor upon those who were oppressed in the earth and make them leaders and make them inheritors) [Al-Qasas: 5-6
] The world has been rendering impotent in finding solutions for the situation in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. In light of these circumstances, the current course has reached a dead end that is completely unacceptable to both international law and history. The most egregious war crimes have been committed in Gaza and what is currently happening in the west bank threatens to become unfolding another Gaza further exacerbating making the situation even worse , where is the international law ? Where is the international justice? Where are the human rights? This deafening silence on the part of the world’s actual leaders will strip them of their humanity, conscience, and historical responsibility—history will record the worst about them and condemn them with the most vile words. By God’s will the dignity and nobility of the Palestinian women and children are far surpass than their faces and the honor of those leaders.
“Where are the leaders of Russia and China, as well as the major powers around the world, when it comes to the war crimes that are being committed in Gaza and in occupied Palestinian cities?! Where is the role of senior officials in the United Nations and international organizations in addressing what is happening in Palestine?
What is the position of these leaders on the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza and the West Bank, where people are dying of hunger, thirst, and injuries, and cannot find medicine or food?
Where are the UN officials and world leaders? Why dont they take actions to save the Palestinians?
Why dont they take swift and decisive action to stop the terrorist acts of the cowardly Israeli army? Where is the respect for basic principles of international humanitarian law?
Why dont they move to protect civilians, innocent children, and women from assassinations? Why dont they provide humanitarian, food, and medical assistance to civilians in Gaza and Palestinian cities?
Why dont they work to stop the firing on civilians and innocent people? Where is the historical responsibility and accountability of these senior officials and world leaders, knowing that over 1.5 million people are under siege, being bombed, killed, and starved.