Gaza: The West, “including Canada”, at risk of “complicity”, says Oxfam-Québec

The director general of Oxfam-Québec, Béatrice Vaugrante, describes the situation in the Gaza Strip as a nameless humanitarian failure “.

In an interview to here RDI on Friday, she pointed out that the 35 members of Oxfam-Québec who are on site report monstrous situations of people who have nothing to eat and who grab the last lots of food.

On April 20, we gave our last package of foodshe said.

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According to Vaugrant, 95 % of humanitarian organizations said in late April no longer being able to do their job, stressing that more than 400 humanitarian workers were killed in Israeli bombings.

It is really using humanitarian aid as a military tool, as a political tool, and it is absolutely prohibited by international lawunderlined Béatrice Vaugrante.

She also deplores The deafening silence of the international community.

The population is at the discs, it is forced to burn plastic to have a little heat or make a little food because there is no more wood, no more petrol.

According to Ms. Vaugrant, You need a ceasefire, you have to stop the sale of weapons. We must take, including Canada, concrete measures, among other things on economic and otheradding that there is important risks of complicity for Western countries, including Canada.

Before the outbreak of recent federal elections, Canada announced nearly $ 100 million in humanitarian aid and in support of governance for Palestinians. In September 2024, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, assured that no weapon or component of weapons made in Canada would be “sent” to the Gaza Strip.

“Famine as a weapon of war,” deplores Hamas

In a video broadcast on Friday, Abderrahmane Chadid, one of Hamas officials, said that Gaza entered a phase of acute famine and malnutrition.

According to him, Israel uses famine as a methodical weapon of war to submit the Palestinian people. He also accused the Israeli government of violate the Geneva agreements and international humanitarian law.

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For its part, a humanitarian worker from the Norwegian Council for refugees (NRC) told the Associated Press, after a stay in the Palestinian enclave, that if Israel continues its blockade of the Gaza Strip, Thousands of people will die, there will be a total collapse of civil order, telecommunications networks will be out of service and we will find it difficult to understand the situation, because it will take place in darkness.

Gavin Kelleher accused Israel of having also created a situation in which Palestinians cannot cultivate their own food or fishing.

A proposal from Hamas rejected

In addition, the head of Hamas indicated that the Palestinian movement had submitted a new proposal on April 17 in the context of negotiations, presenting A global and balanced agreementbut that the Israeli government had refused it.

According to Abderrahmane Chadid, the proposal of agreement included a cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, the lifting of the blockade and the reconstruction of the enclave. In return, Hamas would release all hostages at once in exchange for the number of Palestinian detainees on which the two parties agreed.

Chadid also explained that Hamas had offered a five-year ceasefire with regional and international guarantees.

Finally, the Islamist movement advocates a committee formed by technocrats for the management of the Palestinian enclave.

With information from Associated Press, Al Jazeera and Al Mayadeen