'Killing must halt and help be allowed in to two million Palestinians trapped'
The relatively few injured and foreign nationals allowed to escape the hell of Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt is a chink of light.
But the future remains dark for more than two million Palestinians trapped in the devastated strip of land. Without a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a surge of humanitarian aid in place of the tiny trickle permitted, the suffering and loss of life will shame those who are condoning the killing of so many civilians.
Hamas is Israel’s enemy but it is ordinary Palestinians, including thousands of women and children, who are the main victims. What Hamas did on October 7, butchering 1,400 Israelis and seizing more than 200 hostages, was a war crime. So too is taking the lives of many more Palestinians. For the chink of light to shine brighter, the killing must halt and help be allowed in.
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