The United Nations and major aid groups across the world have begun moving into the Gaza strip to distribute aid to the destitute following a brutal 15 month war that saw tens of thousands killed including women as well as children and leaving the entire area without water and electricity.
Fighting paused on Sunday following a ceasefire deal reached between the government of Israel and liberation movement Hamas that is expected to last for not less than six weeks and includes among others exchange of hostages.
Thousands of Palestinians arrested by the Zionist state without trial are languishing in Israeli prisons including women and children while many have died and others just unaccounted for.
South Africa has been leading the charge in demanding accountability from Israel including taking the matter to international courts while the likes of Qatar, Egypt and the United States of America have been facilitating talks between Israel and Hamas.
While the three countries are regarded as generally pro-Israel, Qatar and Egypt addapted mediatory roles as the conflict escalated with evidence mounting of a deliberately carried out genocide by the Jewish which historians and analysts across the globe believe is meant at exteminating the entire Palestinian population with the aim of ultimately annexing more land including occupying the likes of neighbouring Lebanon and possibly Egypt itself.
While the US government has been exposed for ignoring atrocities committed by Israel and shielding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being held accountable at the UN and other multilateral forums, it was President-elect Donald Trump who is being credited with pressurising Israel into negotiations with Hamas.
Teams from both sides are expected to agree on a swap of prisoners.
There’s thousands of Palestinians detained without trial by Israel and just under a hundred of the more than 250 Israelis captured by Hamas remain keptive and are expected to be set free in a swap provided for in the ceasefire deal.
South African based Gift of the Givers which has branches in the Middle East has already started rolling out aid in Gaza after not being able to do so for many months as a result of an Israeli blockade that made it nigh-impossible to reach the vulnerable people of the Gaza Strip.
Gift of the Givers raised concern about the difficulties brought by the bombardment of infrastructure by Israel which has among others left Gaza without water, electricity, a functional health system or roads.
“Gift of the Givers has had a permanent presence in Gaza since 2014. My teams describe the situation as horrific. Their words are that this is a total massacre. Civilian blocks have been flattened, the dead are in their tens of thousands including children, women and the elderly. ten hospitals have been directly targeted, scores of ambulances have been destroyed. Very few hospitals are functional, most of them with no space, no bed, the only power plant is not working, there’s no electricity, no water. The plant that we have set up is not enough to supply more than 2,3 million people. Churches have been hit, mosques have been hit, movement on the streets is difficult. It is a very difficult situation. If trucks tried to bring in aid from Egypt they are threatened with bombardment, you cannot fight a war in this manner,” said Gift of the Givers founder and head Imtiaz Sooliman.