11-08-2025
Argentinian authors, actors express rejection to genocide in Gaza
Buenos Aires - Saba:
In a statement titled "Gaza: Before It's Too Late," the Argentine Association of Socialist Intellectuals and Artists denounced the catastrophic humanitarian situation facing the residents of the Gaza Strip as a result of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation, while condemning international complicity and the cultural silence surrounding the issue.
According to the Palestinian WAFA News Agency, a large number of Argentine intellectuals, artists, writers, historians, and academics signed the statement.
The number of signatories so far has reached approximately 1,200 prominent figures from various cultural, artistic, and academic fields.
The statement stated: "In Gaza, every day presents an opportunity for a new escalation of horror. Over the past 21 months of genocide carried out by the State of Israel, supported by the United States and European powers, more than 60,000 Gazans have been killed, including approximately 20,000 children."
"Since October 2023, the Strip has been subjected to a brutal blockade that severely restricts the entry of food, medicine, and essential aid, resulting in a total famine and tragic conditions, with people fainting and dying of starvation in the streets, hospitals overflowing with malnourished children, and communities completely destroyed."
"The situation has never been more desperate than it is now, with Israel blocking the entry of thousands of trucks loaded with food and medicine," it added.
Most of the aid is channeled through a private American company called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has replaced the role of the United Nations and is guarded by militias of American mercenaries. More than a thousand Gazans have been killed while distributing aid due to Israeli soldiers firing on crowds."
"Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into an unbearable hell, where the choice is to starve or die searching for food, a horrific image of the lack of humanity before the eyes of the entire world."
The signatories noted that "the shortage of drinking water, food, and medicine has reached a dangerous level, threatening permanent mass famine with irreversible damage."
The impact on the population, especially children, has been reversible, and Gaza has become uninhabitable after the destruction of approximately 80% of its civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, and shops, and more than two million people have been displaced.
It also addressed the announcement by the Israeli Defense Minister last July of his intention to establish a detention camp in Rafah to detain the population, along with threats to expand the ethnic cleansing project to include the West Bank after the Israeli parliament voted on July 23 to annex the entire territory.
The statement concluded by calling for "amplifying this cry and taking to the streets around the world to stop the most brutal genocide of our time, and to halt the State of Israel's genocide against Gaza before it is too late."
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