{"id":83181,"date":"2025-06-17T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83181"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:40:42","slug":"why-should-we-have-words-for-inhumanity-on-this-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/17\/why-should-we-have-words-for-inhumanity-on-this-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should we have words for inhumanity on this scale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As The Guardian<\/a> has noted this afternoon:<\/p>\n

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The World Health Organization pleaded on Tuesday for fuel to be allowed into\u00a0Gaza<\/a>\u00a0to keep its remaining hospitals running, warning the Palestinian territory\u2019s health system was at \u201cbreaking point\u201d, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rik Peeperkorn,<\/strong>\u00a0the WHO\u2019s representative in the\u00a0Palestinian territories<\/a>, said:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For over 100 days, no fuel has entered Gaza and attempts to retrieve stocks from evacuation zones have been denied.<\/em><\/p>\n

Combined with critical supply shortages, this is pushing the health system closer to the brink of collapse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Peeperkorn said\u00a0only 17 of Gaza\u2019s 36 hospitals<\/strong>\u00a0were currently\u00a0minimally to partially functional.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They have a total of about 1,500 beds \u2013 about 45% fewer than before the conflict began.<\/p>\n

He said all hospitals and primary health centres in north Gaza were currently out of service.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Rafah<\/strong>\u00a0in southern Gaza, health services are provided through the Red Cross field hospital and two partially functioning medical points.<\/p>\n

Speaking from\u00a0Jerusalem,<\/strong>\u00a0he said the 17 partially functioning hospitals and seven field hospitals were barely running on a minimum amount of daily fuel and \u201cwill soon have none left\u201d.<\/p>\n

WHO trauma surgeon and emergency officer\u00a0Thanos Gargavanis,<\/strong>\u00a0said from the\u00a0Strip:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are walking already the fine line that separates disaster from saving lives. The shrinking humanitarian space makes every health activity way more difficult than the previous day.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reports are also coming in this afternoon that maybe 60 people have been killed and many more injured by Israeli troops firing at desperate Palestinians at supposedly Israeli-organised feeding stations. This is mass murder of those already made desperate.<\/p>\n

And despite all this, our prime minister is signing declarations supporting Israel's right to defend itself from a supposed threat from Iran that it has claimed exists for more than twelve years, but for which there is no evidential support of a current or even imminent threat, meaning that the war in Iran has been deliberately created as a diversionary tactic to prevent the world noticing the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

I am almost lost for words at this unfolding horror, and that is rare for me.<\/p>\n

But why should we have words for inhumanity on this scale, and the totally inappropriate response from our politicians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As The Guardian has noted this afternoon: The World Health Organization pleaded on Tuesday for fuel to be allowed into\u00a0Gaza\u00a0to keep its remaining hospitals running,
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