“When Gaza was burned, the children were starved, and hospitals collapsed – did you move?”: A international voice from Gaza

Chervco was talking at a press conference in New York via video from Gaza, noting the order issued by the Israeli authorities to hundreds of thousands of people who are exhausted to leave to a paved area in which there is no room for more.

In this article, we leave the field for Olga Cherevco’s words, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs, to describe the situation as you see in the Gaza Strip.

“A friend of a message on the phone yesterday told me that he had tried to find a place in the south to be displaced to him and he was unable. His 8 -year -old cousin was killed in Israeli bombing last week, with several other children while waiting for them to get bread.

His daughter – who completed her second year and knows nothing in her little life except the war – accelerated as soon as a bomb fell into a location close to hiding under the table in the charitable cuisine that her father is running as he continues to feed thousands of people daily.

Gaza does not need compassion, but it needs to end this terrible violence.

The smell of death spreads everywhere, to be a terrible ticket that the rubble hides the remains of mothers, fathers and children. People, laughed, cried, and dreamed. Their lives were short because of the deadly war mechanisms, many of whom will never find them.

On our way back to Gaza yesterday, we hardly find ways that can be passed from, as people are crowded around our convoy, which appears to be exhausted, begging to end this terror.

A little girl was walking next to her father, she waved us to take over her hand when we passed next to her family. Will you survive this hell? Do world leaders who can stop this war see this child worth peace? Her life is in the hands of those who choose to do something.

Parents are struggling to protect their children from violence, from hunger, from fear. Flying families fill the streets, carry their children and do not know where they are heading because all the ways have run out.

The race over time, with death, with the spread of starvation, we, relief workers, make us feel as if we are running in animated sands, while the movements of relief convoys are often rejected, delayed or exposed to obstacles from the Israeli authorities.

But with this suffering, humanity shines. Palestinian doctors, nurses and paramedics work around the clock, often without receiving wages, medications or electricity.

Humanitarian workers from the United Nations and Red Cross agencies and local and international NGOs deliver food, medicine and clean water under fire.

Normal people share their little with strangers. In every care step, a refusal to allow cruelty appears to form the future, and to prove that the human spirit is able to withstand even the darkest times.

Some ask me if I have any hope. Hope may be everything that remains, so we have to support it.

Gaza residents do not ask for charity, but rather seek their right to live in safety, dignity and peace. And all of our humanity – you and you – dictate that we have to move now.

History will judge us, not only with regard to the speeches that we make, but also with our actions. When Gaza was burned, the children were starved, and hospitals collapsed, did you move?

Today every day, there is a new opportunity for the international community to translate words into actions. Do not miss the opportunity, it may be the last. “