Intl. community has 'moral duty' to end Gaza plight
Press TV has conducted an interview with Yousef al-Helou, a filmmaker from London, and Maxine Dovere, a political commentator from New York, to discuss the tragic situation in the Gaza Strip.
Helou says the international community has “a moral duty to pressure Israel” to respect international law but it is “not serious to put an end to the sufferings of the people of Gaza.”
“Due to the lack of inaction by the international community, Israel goes away and continues its aggression simply because of the green light given [to the regime] by the American administration,” he notes.
The filmmaker also says “Israel enjoys a culture of impunity”, stressing that the people of Gaza are paying a heavy price” for demanding their basic rights and resisting the Israeli atrocities.
The Tel Aviv regime imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has caused serious difficulties for the Palestinian population, Helou says, adding, “What is happening in Gaza is a man-made disaster.”
He further says Israel has waged three wars in less than six years on the Gaza Strip, turning the enclave into an experimental field for testing the American and Israeli weapons.
Dovere, for her part, lays the blame for the delay in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian Authority.
She also believes the Gaza “siege is a defense mechanism” while accepting that the blockade has left the Palestinian people in a difficult condition. She also blames the Palestinians for the hardships that the Israeli regime has inflicted on the Gazans.
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