Josie Fernandez | Stop the carnage in Gaza and West Asia
The Palestine-Israel conflict in Gaza is a huge humanitarian crisis. The killing of Palestinian civilians is everybody’s tragedy and burden.
Asian Public Intellectual (API) Fellows of Malaysia condemn the collective punishment of Palestinians, particularly children and women, by the United States-backed military force of Israel. Israel must stop acting with impunity in this asymmetrical conflict.
We join the international calls for an immediate halt to the Israeli military’s relentless pounding on prison-like Gaza, where its children, women, the elderly and men are dying, trapped and denied medical aid, water, food and electricity and have nowhere to escape.
Similarly, any attempt by the Palestinian fighters to launch more rockets into Israel must also cease.
The helpless situation faced by these Palestinians in the face of this colossal military onslaught is tantamount to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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Stop the carnage in Gaza and West Asia!
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The Palestine-Israel conflict in Gaza is a huge humanitarian crisis. The killing of Palestinian civilians is everybody’s tragedy and burden.
