Gaza, dying, crying, existing, resisting, returning by 4PR - Voice of the People published on 2024-01-22T23:38:37Z Each day brings news of more Palestinian civilians killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza. Homes, schools, hospitals, farms – nothing is spared. Nowhere is safe. Hunger, thirst and disease have emerged as an even greater threat than bombs. Gaza’s 2.2 million people are trapped without food, water and healthcare. Israel is using starvation and thirst as weapons of war and refusing to provide unhindered safe access for humanitarian aid to meet the needs of civilians. UN officials and aid agencies alike, along with hundreds of scholars and practitioners of international humanitarian and genocide law are warning Israel is carrying out genocide. The UN General Assembly has called for a ceasefire. The UN Security Council has failed to do so because the US blocks it. South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to order a ceasefire because of the genocide underway. Jordan has opened a field hospital in the Gaza strip and airlifted supplies in. Yemen’s Ansarallah (Houthi) movement is attacking ships supplying Israel, in the Red Sea. Instead of supporting South Africa’s case, or trying to send aid, Australian government officials continue to pretend Israel’s aims are legitimate. But there is nothing legitimate about genocide and war crimes. Voices: 4PR, Ciaron O'Reilly, US Apache helicopter pilot. Features Collateral Murder by Wikileaks. Image: March in Solidarity, Magandjin Song: Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying by Labi Siffre