According to a report by Al Jazeera, Sami Al-Arian, a professor at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, has accused the international community of failing to hold Israel accountable for what he described as repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. He said Israel has disregarded its responsibilities, particularly the commitment to allow a steady flow of humanitarian aid into the territory.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Al-Arian highlighted that the amount of aid entering Gaza since the ceasefire began has been far below expectations. “The number of aid trucks entering Gaza each day has not come close to the 600 that were promised,” he noted, stressing that this shortfall has left millions of Palestinians in dire conditions.
“All of the conditions of the ceasefire have been violated,” Al-Arian said, criticizing what he views as the lack of international pressure on Israel to comply with the agreement.
He questioned why the promised relief has not reached civilians in Gaza, asking, “Where is the aid that [Palestinians] were promised? Where is the safety they were promised – the shelter, the medical aid? None of that is coming in.”
Al-Arian further accused Israel of maintaining what he called a systematic policy of starvation and deprivation. “Famine is still a policy that Israel has been upholding,” he said, warning that the continued restriction of supplies is deepening the humanitarian catastrophe.
His remarks come as aid agencies and humanitarian groups continue to report severe shortages of food, clean water, and medical resources in Gaza. Despite calls from global leaders for unrestricted humanitarian access, Al-Arian said the international community’s inaction has allowed the crisis to worsen, leaving Palestinians to face the devastating consequences of what he described as “collective punishment.”
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