VIDEO: How to Reverse Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis — And Hold the Perpetrators Accountable
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unprecedented anywhere in the world. Millions of people — families, babies, elders, children — have been displaced from their homes. They flee Israeli bombs on foot, only to find that wherever they end up has no water, electricity, fuel, food, medicine, or real shelter. The winter rains have come, and the U.S.-made bombs continue to fall.
Israel’s extreme violations of human rights and international law — including violations of the laws of war and potentially the Convention Against Genocide — have made Israel and the United States, which supports the assault, pariahs at the United Nations and around the world.
To provide humanitarian support for starving Gazans, and to begin the process of holding perpetrators accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity, we need a ceasefire. Right now.
This webinar takes up both challenges.
Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian from Gaza, is the Philanthropy Director of UNRWA USA. With both solid analysis and a moving depiction of his own family’s life and death in Gaza, Hani provides a powerful understanding of the humanitarian crisis and what is required to reverse it.
Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, offers a comprehensive yet completely accessible explanation of the violations of international humanitarian law now being committed in Gaza. He also offers ideas about what it would take to begin the process of holding Israel accountable for those crimes.
Khury Petersen-Smith and I add important commentary on the U.S. and global movements demanding an immediate ceasefire — and how people and social movements can use international law and the United Nations to push for an end to war crimes and an immediate ceasefire.
