According to reports from the US media “Newsweek” and other reports on the 1st, in response to the Israeli military’s two air strikes on the largest refugee camp in Gaza, Angelina Jolie, the famous American Hollywood actress and former special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, took to social media that day. The media posted an article on Instagram condemning Israel’s attacks on civilians as a violation of international law, and denounced the leaders of other countries who colluded with Israel to obstruct the humanitarian ceasefire as “complicit accomplices” in these war crimes.
“For nearly 20 years, the Gaza Strip has been an open-air prison, and now it is quickly turning into a mass grave.”
On the 1st, Angelina Jolie posted a photo on her personal Instagram of an air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, accusing Israel of targeting the trapped people who had nowhere to escape. A “deliberate bombing”.
She said that with the whole world watching and with the complicity of many governments, millions of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, are suffering collective punishment and inhumane treatment. They are also being deprived of food, medicine and humanitarian aid. Aid, “40% of the victims are innocent children, many families are being exterminated… All this is in violation of international law.”
She further pointed out that world leaders who refuse to call for a humanitarian ceasefire on all sides and prevent the United Nations Security Council from imposing a ceasefire on both sides are also complicit in these crimes.
According to reports, Angelina Jolie served as the Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy of the High Commissioner of the United Nations Refugee Agency from 2001 to 2022.
The classic phrase “Although they have nothing, they are free” was born in 2018 when Angelina Jolie visited the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as a special envoy of the UN Refugee Agency.
At the end of 2022, Angelina Jolie announced her resignation as special envoy and said she planned to contact refugees or local organizations directly to provide help, rather than through the United Nations.
A few days before publishing the above post, on October 30, Angelina Jolie issued a long statement on the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, calling for the protection of all civilians. She said that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)’s raid on Israel on October 7 could not excuse “the loss of innocent lives in Gaza.”
“Like millions of people around the world, over the past few weeks, I have been sickened and outraged by the terrorist attacks on Israel, the deaths of so many innocent civilians, and I have thought about how to best help,” the statement read. I also pray for each hostage to return home immediately and safely, and for the families who have endured unimaginable bereavement.”
In her statement, Angelina Jolie called Hamas’s attack on Israel a “terrorist act,” but she stressed that this did not mean she could condone Israel’s bombing of innocent Gaza civilians who had nowhere to go. “Civilians in the Gaza Strip There is no food and water, no possibility of evacuation, not even the basic human right to seek refuge across the border.”
On April 30, 2022, Angelina Zuli visited the western Ukrainian city of Lviv as a special envoy of the United Nations Refugee Agency. (Reuters)
She recalled her relevant work experience at the United Nations Refugee Agency and called for more humanitarian aid to be provided to the people in the Gaza Strip. “Only a few aid trucks have entered Gaza, but this is only a small part of the aid needed by the civilians in Gaza.” , airstrikes are creating new humanitarian needs every day. Denying aid, fuel and water is a collective punishment for a people.”
At the end of her statement, Angelina Jolie insisted that all lives were “equally important” and that anything that could prevent civilian casualties and save lives should be done, urging all parties to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire as soon as possible.
She also expressed support for a statement issued by Doctors Without Borders at the time, which criticized world leaders for acting too weakly and too slowly, noting that a non-binding U.N. humanitarian ceasefire resolution was essentially unable to curb the inhumane treatment of innocent civilians. The indiscriminate violence urges the international community to take more forceful actions to pressure Israel to stop its bloody attacks.
This article is reprinted with permission from Observer.com
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2023-11-02 15:11:15
