“We are witnessing population movements as if they were cattle,” laments the vice-president of Médecins du monde

After several days of negotiations in Cairo (Egypt), Hamas announced that it had accepted the latest ceasefire proposal. Since this announcement, scenes of jubilation have taken place in the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian situation is critical. A decision welcomed by Jean-François Corty, vice-president of Médecins du monde, who considers a ceasefire to be urgent from a humanitarian and geopolitical point of view. “European and American diplomats are putting pressure so that there is a ceasefire and that there is no land attack on Rafah”he says.

Massive population displacements in Rafah

Jean-François Corty recalls that nearly 1.5 million people around Rafah have been displaced several times, “they are under nutritional pressure, with aid that does not come in proportionately”. Despite the arrival of humanitarian aid in recent days, the vice-president of Doctors of the World assures that“we cannot make up for six months of delay compared to the 600 trucks which returned every day before October 7”.

Despite the Palestinian population gathered in Rafah, the IDF threatens an attack on the city and asks the population to leave. “It is certainly the butchery that will continue with mortalities that will be monstrous and we are witnessing population movements as if they were cattle,” he laments.