Elocuente y firme, Navanethem Navi Pillay, recién galardonada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz, mantiene a sus 85 años la pasión y la entereza necesarias para seguir adelante con la labor que ha vertebrado su vida: la defensa de los derechos humanos. Nacida en Sudáfrica, creció bajo el régimen de apartheid y se hizo jurista porque quería saber “cuáles son los derechos de las personas”. El Comité noruego del Nobel ha destacado sus esfuerzos para promover el derecho internacional en un momento en que el Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI), pero también el Tribunal Internacional de Justicia de la ONU (TIJ), afrontan ataques por parte de Estados Unidos y su principal aliado, Israel.
At least eight Palestinians, including four children, were killed in Israeli assaults in different parts of the Gaza Strip over the last two days.
On Monday, October 19, Israeli forces launched drone strikes on north-central Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis, killing a Palestinian man and two children.
One day earlier, five Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in Israeli shelling and gunfire across the besieged enclave. This includes two children, who were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in separate attacks.
One of the slain children was identified as 13-year-old Tamer Soboh, who was killed in the northern city of Beit Lahia; the other was Misk al-Dalu, who died after Israeli troops opened fire at tents sheltering displaced people in al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, mass funerals remain common across Gaza as Palestinians dig through the rubble to recover the remains of their loved ones.
On Sunday, the remains of 75 Palestinians were buried in the Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza city, the majority of whom were children and women killed in Israeli airstrikes that targeted their homes during the three-year genocide.
While mass killings are underway in the war-ravaged territory, the humanitarian crisis further deteriorates not only because of Israel’s continued blockade and restrictions on the entry of goods and supplies, but also because of measures taken by some organizations concerned with providing aid to the population.
On Monday, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced that it will reduce food assistance in Gaza by around one-third due to shortage of funding. This means that 500,000 people will lose access to critical assistance.
It is worth noting that since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal aggression on Gaza, the WFP provided food assistance for up to 90% of families in the Gaza Strip.
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