Thread by @AlexCrawfordSky

There’re multiple calls on world leaders to intervene in Gaza after a UN commission concluded, for the first time, that genocide is being committed. More than 20 aid orgs have banded together and their statement is desperate 🧵

Their statement says : ‘As humanitarian leaders,  we have borne direct witness to the horrifying deaths and suffering of the people of Gaza. Our warnings have gone unheeded and thousands more lives are still at stake’ 🧵

It goes on: ‘as the Israeli govt has ordered the mass displacement of Gaza City – home to nearly one million people – we are on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken. Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable’ 🧵

And continues: ‘About 65,000 Palestinians have now been killed, including more than 20,000 children. Thousands more are missing, buried under the rubble…’ 🧵

It adds : ‘Yet world leaders fail to act. Facts are ignored. Testimony is cast aside. And more people are killed as a direct consequence’ 🧵

‘Our organisations, together with Palestinian civil society groups, the UN, and Israeli human rights organisations, can only do so much…’ 🧵

‘We have tirelessly tried to defend the rights of the people of Gaza and sustain humanitarian assistance, but we are being obstructed every step of the way. We have been denied access, and the militarization of the aid system has proved deadly’ 🧵

And urges : ‘States must use every available political, economic, and legal tool at their disposal to intervene. Rhetoric and half measures are not enough. This moment demands decisive action’ 🧵

It goes on: ‘The UN enshrined international law as the cornerstone of global peace and security. If Member States continue to treat these legal obligations as optional, they’re not only complicit but are setting a dangerous precedent for the future’ 🧵

And ends: ‘History will undoubtedly judge this moment as a test of humanity. And we are failing. Failing the people of Gaza, failing the hostages, and failing our own collective moral imperative’