"The Trauma Is Unimaginable": Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo

[Uncle Joe]

More than 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed over the past eight months of Israel’s assault on Gaza, and Palestinian officials are warning over 3,500 children are at risk of death due to starvation. “The trauma is unimaginable,” says Janti Soeripto, the president and CEO of Save the Children US, who is calling for a ceasefire, the protection of humanitarian workers and the allowance of aid into the besieged territory. “Over these past couple of weeks, it has even gotten worse.” Soeripto also calls for more international attention on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over 7 million have been swept up in one of the world’s largest displacement crises as armed groups fight across the country. “The DRC should play a much more important, critical role for the international community, and it should get attention and the support its population deserves,” says Soeripto, who asks the U.S. to support a peace process and fund humanitarian relief.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

[pfitz59]

1. If the folks in Gaza cared about their children

They would turn over the HAMAS terrorists. Obviously, they'd rather sacrifice their kids than end the war.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Hamas has the guns, and weapons, not to mention

there is no functioning society in Gaza.

The Palestinians in Gaza are literally starving to death.

If Netanyahu and his government cared about the Israeli people, not to mention the rest of humanity, he wouldn't be forcing a population of over 2 million innocent human beings into starvation.