Gaza is now worse than hell on the ground, the head of the humanitarian tells BBC

Gaza became worse than hell on the ground, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross told the BBC.

In an interview with the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, the President of the organization Mirjan Spoleik said that “humanity does not work” while watching the horror of the gas war.

Speaking in a room close to the case, which reflects the three Nobel Mirah Mira, I asked Ms. Spolyarich about the comments she made in April that Gaza was “hell on earth”, and if something happened since then to change his mind.

“It got worse … We can’t continue to watch what is happening. This exceeds any acceptable, legal, moral and humane standard. The level of destruction, the level of suffering.

“What is more important is the fact that we see how people are completely deprived of their human dignity. This should really shock our collective conscience.”

She added that the states should do more to end the war, stop the suffering of the Palestinians and release Israeli hostages.

The words are obviously carefully elected, the President of the ICRC carries moral weight.

The International Red Cross is a global humanitarian organization working to ease the suffering in the wars for more than one and a half centuries.

It is also the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, the bodies of international humanitarian legislation, which is intended for regulating war and defense civilians and other poor people. The latest version, the fourth Geneva Convention in 1949, was adopted after World War II and aimed at stopping the mass murder of civilians again.

Israel, I reminded her, justifies her actions in Gaza as self -defense.

“Every state has the right to defend itself,” she said.

“And every mother has the right to see her children return. There are no excuses for taking hostages. There is no excuse to rid the children from access to food, health and safety. In the behavior of hostilities, which each of the participants should be respected in each conflict, to respect.”

Did it mean that the actions of Hamas and other armed Palestinians on October 7, 2023 – killed about 1200 and took more than 250 hostages – did not justify the destruction of Israel in the Gaza Strip and the killing of more than 50,000 Palestinians?

“This is not an excuse and blowing from the Geneva conventions. None of the parties can violate the rules, no matter what, and it is important, because, look, the same rules extend to each person under the Convention in Geneva. The child has the same defense under conferences in Geneva.”

You never know, Ms. Spoiled, when your own child may be on the weak side and need these protection.

ICRC is a reliable source of information about what’s going on in gas. Israel does not allow international information organizations, including the BBC, to send journalists to the territory. The report on more than 300 ICRC employees, 90% of whom are Palestinians, make up a vital part of the war recording.

Ms. Spolievich, President of the ICRC, talks to his team every day. ICRC surgical hospital in Rapha-Brigital Medical Institutions to the area where many Palestinians were killed during the chaotic distribution of Israel’s aid and supported by the US Humanitarian Fund (GHF).

Like the UN, the ICRC is not involved in a new operation. The fundamental drawback of the new system is that it contains tens of thousands of desperate, starving civilians through an active military zone.

Ms. Spalevich said that “there is no excuse for changing and breaking what works with something that does not seem to work.”

In the last few days, MCCC surgical groups in their field hospital in Rapha near the GHF zone were overflowing at least twice the victims of the food surgery.

“Nowhere in the gas is nowhere safely. Nowhere. Non -civilians, not for hostages,” said Ms. Spalevich. “This is a fact. And our hospital is not safe. I don’t remember the other situation I saw where we work in the midst of hostilities.”

A few days ago, the young boy struck a bullet that passed through the fabric of the tent when he was treated.

“We don’t even have security for our own staff … They work 20 hours a day. They run out. But it’s too much, it’s superior to human opportunities.”

ICRC said on Tuesday morning on Tuesday, his RAFAH surgical teams received 184 patients, including 19 people killed on arrival and eight others who died of wounds shortly afterwards. It was the largest number of victims from one incident at the field hospital because it was created just over a year ago.

It happened at dawn on Tuesday. Palestinian witnesses and ICRC doctors reported the horrific murder scenes when Israeli troops opened the fire of Palestinians who went to a new place of help distribution in the south of Gaza. According to a foreign witness, it was a “common massacre”.

The official statement of the Israeli military has described a completely different picture. It states that “several suspects” moved to Israeli forces “, which deviate from the appointed access routes.” The troops “carried out a warning fire … Additional shots were sent about a few separate suspects who advanced to the troops.”

A press secretary of the military said he was investigating what happened. He refused to shoot the Palestinians in a similar incident on Sunday.

Ms. Spolerych said the ICBK was deeply concerned about talking about winning at all costs full of war and degumanization.

“We see what happens things that will make the world a miserable place far beyond the region, far beyond Israelis and Palestinians, because we highlight the same rules that protect the basic rights of each person.”

If there is no ceasefire, it is afraid of the future of the region.

“It’s vital. To keep the way to peace for the region. If you are forever destroying this way forever, the region will never find security and security. But we can stop it now. It’s not too late.”

“State leaders have obligations to act. I urge them to do something and do more and do whatever. Since it will talk, it will pursue them, it will reach their threshold.”

ICRC is considered the custodian of the Geneva Conventions. The fourth, agreed after the Second World War, is intended to protect civilians in the wars.

According to her, Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, she said, no justifications for current events.

“None of the parties can violate the rules, no matter what,” said Ms. Sporsarich.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 were hostage.

At least 54 607 people have been killed in Gaza ever since, including 4,335 years since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, the Ministry of Health of the territory reports.

Addressing the sides to stop the hostilities, she said, “We cannot continue to watch what is happening.

“It is not amenable to humanity. It will chase us.”

She urged the international community to do more. “Each state has obligations to use its funds, its peaceful means to help change what is happening today,” she said.