GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Parliamentarians for Jerusalem and Palestine Association has issued an urgent international appeal to save Gaza’s children from what it describes as an unfolding genocide.
The call was directed at parliamentary leaders, regional and global legislative bodies, and international human rights organizations, urging swift and decisive action as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deepens.
Citing on-the-ground reports, including an alert by the International Justice Forum Against Genocide, the Association warned that over 60,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition and a collapse of basic health services.
With the near-total absence of baby formula, therapeutic food, and medical care, infant deaths due to hunger and lack of treatment have been documented.
In its press statement on Wednesday, the Association asserted that the situation in Gaza constitutes a war crime under international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It held Israel fully responsible for deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war and blocking the entry of food and medical supplies to Gaza’s besieged population.
The Association urged parliaments and international legislative organizations to issue public condemnations of the starvation tactics and to demand the opening of sustained humanitarian corridors.
It also called on governments to support emergency child nutrition programs, send infant formula and supplements, and launch parliamentary delegations or send unified appeals to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF to activate an immediate rescue plan for Gaza’s children.
The statement concluded with a stern warning: “International silence and inaction in the face of this unfolding genocide amount to complicity.”
It called on the global community to fulfill its humanitarian, legal, and moral obligations by standing with the Palestinian people and confronting the Israeli occupation over what it described as one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history.
UNICEF echoed the alarm last week, reporting that some 470,000 children in Gaza have been living in near-famine conditions since March. The UN agency stressed that “there is no alternative to direct pressure” to ensure immediate access to food and humanitarian aid.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel—backed by the United States—has waged a genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip marked by widespread killings, mass displacement, systematic starvation, and the obliteration of civilian infrastructure.
Israel has defied repeated international appeals and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to cease its assault.
To date, the genocide has left nearly 190,000 Palestinians martyred or wounded—most of them women and children. More than 11,000 remain missing, while hundreds of thousands have been forcibly displaced. Famine has already claimed numerous lives, especially among children, amid the near-total collapse of health and aid systems.
