COPENHAGEN—Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza-Canadian doctor and human rights activist, wrote a hard-hitting appeal to the international community to act now to save Gaza, published in the Toronto Star on Aug. 5, 2025. Here is a link to the complete article on the Schiller Institute in Denmark’s website.
Here are some excerpts:
“The images of Gaza tell us everything we need to know: charred children, weeping mothers clutching lifeless infants, fathers burying their children in plastic bags and entire families erased in a single airstrike have been shown repeatedly alongside the long lines of thirsty and hungry people waiting for what will never come.
“What more must Gaza show for the world to act? It’s what countless experts, and a UN special committee have named a genocide. And it’s happening in real time, livestreamed on the internet. The world knows and the response from the international community has failed a moral test.
“The destruction of Gaza is a deliberate and direct policy of the Israeli government, which is being enabled by the silence, indifference, or endorsement from the many governments that fund, arm, or politically shield Israel from accountability.
“For nearly two years, Gaza has been dying in slow motion and burning. And before that, for many years, it has been suffocating. Today, many people in Gaza are closer to death than to a loaf of bread.
