Gaza Emergency Committee: Egyptian Statements on Aid Inaccurate, Whitewash Grave Humanitarian Failure
In a press statement today, the committee asserted that 'these statements do not reflect reality at all; rather, they contribute to misinforming public opinion and whitewashing a painful and severe failure to meet even the minimum needs of over two million people suffering under siege and relentless bombardment in Gaza.'
It added that announcements about the daily entry of hundreds of aid trucks through the Rafah Crossing are 'not grounded in facts and do not match what is being documented on the ground by municipalities across the Strip.'
As for the medical evacuations, the committee said they are 'highly exaggerated in official narratives and cover only a tiny fraction of the wounded and sick,' describing the process as 'slow, complex, and humiliating to the collective dignity of the people.'
The statement highlighted that 'tens of thousands of patients and injured individuals, including children and people with critical disabilities, are still being left to face their fate in scenes that history itself would be ashamed to record.'
The committee described recent Egyptian remarks about 'efforts to alleviate suffering' as nothing more than 'justifications for the failure to fulfill a basic humanitarian, moral, and Arab duty toward the people of Gaza, who are enduring total catastrophe: no clean water, no electricity, no functioning infrastructure, no adequate food for children, the sick, and the displaced, while cemeteries are overflowing with the bodies of the innocent.'
In its message to the Egyptian authorities, the Emergency Committee called for an immediate and unconditional reopening of the Rafah Crossing to allow the flow of aid and essential supplies. It demanded the cancellation of the current complex and degrading coordination procedures that are obstructing the entry of ambulances, medical supplies, and the fuel needed to run life-saving generators.
The committee also urged full transparency regarding the actual number of people and aid trucks entering and leaving Gaza, rather than manufacturing an illusion of solidarity. Furthermore, it appealed for a genuine national and Arab responsibility to replace hollow media statements that neither feed the hungry nor save the wounded.
The Emergency Committee emphasized its refusal 'to be used as a cover for statements that distort the truth,' and affirmed it 'will not remain silent in the face of this organized abandonment of a besieged people being exterminated before the world's eyes.'
The statement concluded with a direct call to Cairo: 'It is time for Egypt, with all its weight and stature, to move beyond 'neutral mediation' to a decisive moral stance in support of devastated Gaza. This is its natural role, its national duty, and the position all Palestinians and Arabs are waiting for.'
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