Doha: The newspaper Al Raya warned that Israel's ongoing violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories require urgent international action to stop the crimes of the occupation. In its editorial today, the paper noted that Israeli violations continue systematically and relentlessly, whether by targeting civilians and using starvation as a weapon, or by destroying infrastructure and hospitals, carrying out forced displacement, and threatening the illegal annexation of the West Bank.
According to Qatar News Agency, all of these acts, it said, constitute clear breaches of international law and a direct threat to the two-state solution. The editorial highlighted a strong warning from UNRWA, which reported that one in three children in Gaza had not eaten anything in 24 hours because of the criminal Israeli blockade that has cut off food supplies. Al Raya stressed that such a situation demands a strong international reaction commensurate with the gravity of the crisis.
The paper questioned whether the world would remain powerless as Israel continues killing, destroying, displacing, and starving civilians, noting that hundreds have already died as the occupying power uses food as a weapon and collective punishment against defenseless people who wait in vain for international assistance. Al Raya underscored UNRWA's confirmation that the price Gaza's children are paying with their lives and childhood is unbearable, as increasing numbers are forced by the harsh conditions to work or beg just to survive.
It condemned the silence of the international community in the face of what it described as genocide in Gaza and daily massacres, while those responsible continue to address UN platforms under the pretext of safeguarding Israel's security. The paper referred to the State of Qatar's statements at the United Nations, stressing that Gaza's residents have long endured intolerable conditions, with destruction extending beyond buildings and infrastructure to the very foundations of life such as health care and education.
Al Raya added that the extremist Israeli government had openly expressed its intention to prolong the war, and that international silence amounted to a license to kill. The editorial concluded by affirming the State of Qatar's belief that a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved by ignoring the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people or by imposing faits accomplis through force. It called on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and to adopt concrete steps toward a binding timetable to end the Israeli occupation and to ensure full recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.