ANFİDAP warns of grave human rights crisis in Gaza, urges global action
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The Ankara-based Palestinian Solidarity Platform (ANFİDAP) has warned that human rights in Gaza are facing a systematic and unprecedented collapse, calling on the international community to take urgent and concrete action to protect Palestinian civilians.
On Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), the platform held a press briefing titled “Deep Breach of Human Rights: Gaza” at the United Nations Türkiye Office, drawing attention to what it described as the catastrophic deterioration of basic rights under Israel’s occupation and military assault.
The briefing was delivered by Ramazan Acar of MAZLUMDER on behalf of ANFİDAP, following opening remarks by journalist and human rights activist Esra Dura.
Acar said that although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 77 years ago to safeguard human dignity, its principles are being “systematically destroyed” in Gaza. He stated that since October 2023, Israeli forces have carried out mass killings, directly targeted civilians, destructed hospitals and civilian infrastructure, forcibly displaced families, blocked humanitarian aid, and killed journalists, medical staff, and UN personnel.
“These are not isolated incidents,” Acar said. “They represent decades of occupation, settlement expansion, ethnic cleansing policies, and apartheid practices imposed on the Palestinian people.”
He strongly criticized the failure of the UN system and powerful states to impose meaningful sanctions, arguing that Israel continues to act with total impunity. According to the platform, ceasefire agreements have been repeatedly violated, with hospitals and refugee shelters attacked shortly after such truces were announced.
Acar warned that this pattern has turned human rights into “selective privileges” rather than universal protections, saying the situation in Gaza represents not merely a regional crisis but a collapse of the global legal and moral order.
The platform concluded by calling on the United Nations to enforce its own charter, impose effective sanctions, and provide tangible political and humanitarian support for the Palestinian people. It urged the international community to end its silence and pursue accountability for what it described as genocide and apartheid, stressing that justice and dignity for Gaza are a test of humanity’s collective conscience. (ILKHA)
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