Oxfam Australia Media Release
Oxfam is responding to the escalating crisis in Lebanon, providing essential support to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been forced to flee as Israeli airstrikes bombard their homes and communities. The influx of internally displaced people, primarily from southern Lebanon, will quickly create disastrous conditions for local communities, beyond the ability of an overloaded international humanitarian system to properly meet.
Oxfam and our partners are supporting internally displaced people in shelters in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon with clean water and sanitation, emergency cash, food, and hygiene and menstrual hygiene kits.
Oxfam’s Lebanon country director Bachir Ayoub said the country can ill afford this on top of existing crises.
“This conflict was predictable and avoidable. It is the result of the failure to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. For decades, the people of Lebanon have endured one crisis after another without getting the opportunity to fully recover. This latest emergency will only deepen the existing challenges facing the people of Lebanon and further destabilise an already volatile region.”
The international community must condemn this escalation and take bold action to stop it now. Israel continues to act with impunity and it must be held to account for its actions in both Lebanon and Gaza. All parties must abide by international humanitarian law and held to account where potential violations may be involved.
The spread of hostilities into Lebanon has inflicted immense damage on civilian infrastructure and led to a tragic loss of life. Lebanon and the region cannot afford to bear the weight of this crisis. This broader regional escalation underscores the urgent need for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
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Can you imagine the “ghosts” of Adolf and Josef looking on at Netanyahu? Would they admire the destruction and damage results? Would they admire the methods used of terror weaponry in indiscriminate usage? And the toll of agony, with civilians losing all, even their lives..? Can historical reflection become more bitter and evil? As zionism aimed to grab a slab of the legally established British mandate of Palestine, what went wrong? Why were the innocent hopeful residents of that land denied by naked aggression, for, Palestine existed up to May of 1948? Can any suggestion help achieve peace, while USA and NATO nations arm this slaughter? Europe got rid of an ages old jewish “problem” and never wanted to talk about it, as others paid the price and still are. It is agonising to wake each day to news of ruthless actions driven by some of the most violent superstitious obsession ever known, for all the haters within Judaism, Christianity, Islam, know that they are Right and all the others are Wrong. Kill, bomb, triumph, become supreme, employ any method, weapon, lie, story, excuse, for utter uncivilised criminality. And it isn’t over yet…
Phil, on ABC iview there is a documentary movie called ‘Prosecuting Evil’.
It is well worth a watch, to see the story of a man called Ben Ferencz, a lawyer who prosecuted the NAZI war criminals.
His first case was the Nuremberg Trials, a 27 year old new graduate, but a true humanitarian.
At the conclusion of the trial he visited a doctor who had been convicted for murdering Jewish children before the execution was carried out. He asked, in German, to humanise the doctor, to recognise the doctor as a man, a father. He asked why the doctor murdered children, the answer, so that they do not grow up to be terrorists.
Is that possibly the rationale behind not caring that children in Lebanon or Gaza are killed, being starved, being targeted? Could it also be that without women more children cannot be born?
He was also instrumental in establishing the International Court of Justice and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
So much was done after the war to redress the injustices of the Holocaust and the alienation of Jews throughout Europe.
But when you choose to be a victim, you cannot heal, you cannot accept the things done. It appears to me that Israelis wear the victim badge and are their aggression against Palestinians and others living in the area is a result of not understanding, not willing to understand the humanitarian actions taken to redress the evils done against Jews.
Check out the film. It is powerful.
Yes PP, well put.
However I blanched a little about ” … legally established British mandate of Palestine …”. Legally, according to whom – perhaps the massive rolling brutal ‘Western’ empires against the ‘East’ and others – justified by the Greeks, and later ‘legalized’ by the the ‘inventions’ of Popes. Not to forget the nit-picking scouring for justification in the Bible(s), the Tora, and to a lesser extent the Quoran.
In the quest for supremacy, exploitation and extraction, just how far back do they have to go in human history to devise and project a rationale for bitterness and ignorance, and a justification for cruelty, oppression and murderous vengeance? Those commercially attached seem to have no bounds in this operation.
Despite folk seeking an ordinary existence, from their midst emerge the craven despots and clerics replete with bling to sell an exclusive paradise based upon ‘othering’, and to form weaponry and bless those who use them to eliminate others. And so, ordinary folk are brought to abdicate their thinking and responsibilities to them.
The cycle continues to today. A cycle premised on convenient distortions, fear mongering and blame. A cycle of the rise of senseless power, obliteration and demise. A cycle of criminality and insanity to usurp cooperation with nature’s mandated bounty.
Today, parlaying with the insanity and criminality, the feckless mainstream media and social media gaslighting is driving the young to despair and informed democracy into the clutches of extremists.
So it appears many can be brought to sleepwalk and live out their implanted nightmares at the same time.