Professor Raphaël Pitti pleaded Wednesday on franceinfo for “an immediate truce” and for humanitarian workers to be able to enter inside Gaza.
“We are in the process of seeing how we can organize ourselves and ask the President of the Republic to receive us”, says Professor Raphaël Pitti, training manager at the Union of Relief and Medical Care Organizations, Wednesday October 18 on franceinfo. It is an initiative of “French humanitarian associations” and “associations that defend human rights”he indicates, in the context of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The aim of this meeting with Emmanuel Macron, if it takes place, is to “to show in a fairly firm manner our humanitarian position and to move in the direction of the values of France, that is to say the values of human rights which we must defend and of the dignity of people“, adds the humanitarian doctor, specialist in emergency medicine in war zones. For him, “It’s really an emergency.”.
While the United Nations will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday, the anesthetist-resuscitator ardently pleads for “an immediate truce”. Another request, “so that we, the humanitarians, can go inside” from the Gaza Strip. For days, hundreds of trucks have been stuck in the Egyptian desert of Sinai, for lack of passage to the 2.4 million Gazans.
“There is an entire population which is hungry, which lacks water, which finds itself in an extremely serious situation. What are we waiting for now to obtain this truce?”
Professor Raphaël Pittion franceinfo
The professor does not have harsh enough words against the siege of the Gaza Strip by Israel since October 9. “We are using methods that are completely medieval, it is unacceptable and it is a strategy that the Russians had already used.”