October 30, 2024
Project 2025’s Environmental and Climate Policy Proposals
Paris, October 3rd, 2024. How have NGOs been able to work and deliver humanitarian aid this past year in Gaza? While the International Court of Justice has warned of a risk of genocide, and war is escalating in the West Bank and Lebanon, Doctors of the World has released a report exposing Israeli obstructions of aid and the attacks that the organisation and its humanitarian workers have been facing for a year in the occupied Palestinian territory.
In this report, Doctors of the World presents a detailed account of events and data covering the period from October 2023 to September 2024, demonstrating how Doctors of the World’s medical response is being impeded in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Some of the most striking examples include:
“Most of the events stated in this report could amount to violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Israel, as the occupying power, has the duty to ensure the adequate provision of food, medical supplies, shelter, and other essential resources for the survival of the civilian population in the occupied territory. Not only are Israeli authorities failing in this obligation, but they are impeding the lifesaving work of humanitarian actors committed to providing for the survival and basic needs of the Palestinian civilian population,”
Doctors of the World is gravely concerned for the safety and security of the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as for its own staff. Doctors of the World has been relentlessly calling on states with influence over the parties involved in the conflict to take concrete actions, beyond mere condemnation, to ensure an immediate and permanent ceasefire, full-scale and unimpeded humanitarian access, and respect for international humanitarian law throughout the entire occupied Palestinian territory.
Press contact:
Maud Martinasso, Médecins du Monde International Network Communication Coordinator, [email protected]