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Dear Avaaz members, As a doctor, I am one of the few who can bear witness to the unimaginable horrors of Gaza.

by Dr Graeme Groom with Avaaz – Help End the Horror (https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/people_power_for_gaza_2_5/) via https://wp.me/pIJl9-Hmy / thefreeonline

I have worked in the bombed and starving hospitals, seen things no human should ever witness, let alone experience. I feel the suffering with a visceral intensity.

Skeletal babies and children with their limbs torn away. Mothers too weak to feed their newborns.
Even the nurses and surgeons collapsing from hunger.We take an oath to protect our patients. And that goes beyond their immediate medical care.

That’s why I joined Avaaz, travelling to meet governments face-to-face. To tell them what I’ve seen — to make them face the reality of genocide, and the costs of their inaction.

Politicians cried. I saw them break down. Heard them admit they had no idea it was so bad. And I felt the room shift when they realised it could be their children getting bombed, starving and alone.

Some governments are finally announcing sanctions and cutting off weapons. But it’s not enough.
 
Now we must turn that trickle into a tidal wave — and I’m humbly asking for your support.
Avaaz is organising to take many more doctors to meet with as many Presidents and Ministers as we can.

They have the power to stop this genocide and open the borders for a flood of humanitarian aid.
We cannot deliver that aid ourselves — Israel’s blockade makes it impossible. But we can fight like hell to make our governments intervene.

There is a fire in me, burning for all the children I’ve held, and lost.
And I promise you now, I will not stop.
This genocide will end. What matters is how many children we lose before then.

Please, donate whatever you can — so we can change the hearts and minds of those with the power to end this horror. Your donation will be used to help end the genocide and unlock humanitarian aid. Donate what you can now:

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This is not some natural disaster — it is mass murder and intentional starvation. Trucks packed with baby formula, food, and medicine are waiting just across the border. But Israel won’t let them in.

Politicians aren’t always moved by headlines or reports. But I’ve seen how they react to the personal, human testimony of doctors like me.One moment of connection between two people can crack indifference wide open.
And when it’s paired with huge, relentless public pressure, the excuses fall apart, paving the way for real action.

Now if we raise enough from this email, we could:
Fund many delegations of doctors to meet with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and governments across Europe and beyond;
Support an uprising of protests and flotillas, from the heart of Berlin to the docks of Marseille, to help stop the supply of weapons to Israel; 
Organise media-grabbing stunts outside parliaments and international meetings, forcing politicians to confront the genocide and their ability to stop it;
Expand Avaaz’s team of Gaza campaigners, storytellers, and communication experts to shift the narrative around Palestine;
Fund Avaaz’s work on the ground in Palestine, helping to organise thousands of people to end Apartheid and the ongoing occupation.

The worst-case scenario is now unfolding in Gaza. But we can do something about it, together.

Donate what you can now: I’LL DONATE €2 I’LL DONATE €4 I’LL DONATE €7 I’LL DONATE €14 OTHER AMOUNT .. https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/people_power_for_gaza_2_5/

People often look back on previous genocides and wonder what they would have done.It’s whatever you’re doing right now.

So don’t look away. Don’t change the subject. Because in another life, it could be any of us running from the bombs, queuing for scraps of food, pleading for the world to do something.
I believe in the power of what we are doing together. And while I didn’t know of Avaaz before we started these meetings, I have been utterly blown away by what this community can do, and your ferocious commitment to the people of Gaza. It is needed more than ever.+

For the children of Gaza, and the hopes of tomorrow,

Dr Graeme Groom and the whole team at Avaaz

What You Should Know About The Doctors

• Dr Graeme Groom is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who has worked in Gaza over 40 times, including four missions since October 2023.
• International doctors are some of the only eyewitnesses to leave Gaza alive. With international reporters almost entirely banned, and local journalists getting killed or trapped inside Gaza, doctors like Dr Groom are uniquely positioned to bear witness — and to confront governments with what they’ve seen first-hand.
• Dr Groom is just one of the doctors Avaaz is working with. We are preparing for many more doctors like him to meet with leaders of governments such as Spain, Germany, France, and the UK. The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner. This means they have enormous financial leverage to stop the genocide and open the way for humanitarian aid.
• Everything Avaaz does is entirely funded by people like you. Your donation makes it possible for doctors like Dr. Groom to carry their eyewitness accounts to the halls of power and fuels our campaigning to end the genocide and bring peace to Palestine.

More information:

1. ‘Heartbreaking’: a London surgeon on the trials of operating in a Gaza hospital (The Guardian)
2. Doctor recounts harrowing shifts working at one of Gaza’s last standing hospitals (ITV news, on Youtube)
3. Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes (Human Rights Watch)

Israel and America want to ‘benevolently’ put 2 million Gazans into a concentration camp and complete their evil Genocide with tacit complicity of State elites worldwide

by @tarikcyrilamartarikcyrilamar. at substack.com via RT and thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-Hd7 Telegram- t.me/thefreeonline/3616

The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards.

As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence, livestreamed. No genocide before has been committed under the eyes of the world like this one. And second, the Gaza genocide is undermining and, in effect, devastating whole moral and legal orders – or at least longstanding claims to them – in an equally unprecedented way.

These two peculiarities are related: The only way the world as a whole could have tolerated the Gaza genocide for almost three years now is by stubbornly disregarding fundamental norms, both written and unwritten.

For instance, almost no state – with the exception of Yemen (under de facto control of the Ansar Allah movement or Houthis) – has even tried to comply with its binding and clear obligations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, namely to “prevent and punish” the crime of genocide.

No one with the power – alone or with others – to do so, not in the Middle East, not beyond it, has come to save the Palestinian victims of the Gaza genocide in the only manner that would work: By stopping their Israeli murderers by massive force.

Yet the small but still disproportionately influential part of the world that calls itself the West has gone beyond merely failing to act. That’s because, whether the West is a civilization once shaped by Christianity or not, for a long time now, its true inner core has been hypocrisy.

And during the Gaza Genocide, the West’s compulsive need to rationalize even its most vicious actions into acts of virtue covered by ‘values’, has led to a new peak of absolute moral and intellectual perversion:

Precisely because the West has not only abandoned the Palestinian victims but is actively co-perpetrating this genocide together with Israel, its elites – in politics, culture, the media, the police, and judiciary – have made a sustained, obstinate effort to radically alter our sense of right and wrong, from specific legal norms down to our intuitive and widely shared understanding of limits never to be crossed.

Waging, for example, a so-called ‘war’ by killing or injuring – often maiming for life – over 50,000 children (as of May 2025)? A ‘war’ in which we receive one reliable testimony after another that many of these children are targeted deliberately, including by drone operators and snipers? A ‘war’ in which starvation, medical deprivation, and the promotion of epidemics have all been deployed equally deliberately? In the West, we are told to call this ‘self-defense’.

see also.. Aid as ambush: The horrifying new face of Israel’s Gaza war

Indeed, we are asked – with great insistence, to say the least – to believe that this form of mass-murderous, infanticiding ‘self-defense’ is something to be proud of, even vicariously: The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, for instance – notorious for his suppression of any signs of resistance to Israeli genocide – has just declared that city hall will keep flying the Israeli flag.

In the same depraved spirit, the establishments of the West hand out punishment – from vicious police beatings to crippling lawfare to international sanctions – not to the perpetrators and accomplices of the Gaza genocide, in Israel and elsewhere, but to those who resist it in solidarity with its Palestinian victims.

Protesters, journalists worth their salt, and even a UN special rapporteur are treated like criminals, even terrorists for actually standing up against the crime of genocide, as – just yesterday, it seems – we were all officially supposed to do. But ‘never again’ has been turned into ‘definitely again, and as long as the murderers want, since they are Israelis and our friends’.

It is in this context of a reversal of morality, law, and meaning so complete the overused term ‘Orwellian’ for once really applies that we can understand what is now happening to the concept of ‘humanitarian’ action.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica’s back-to-basics definition, a humanitarian is a “person who works to make other people’s lives better,” for instance, by trying to end world hunger. Since modern humanitarianism already has a history of two centuries, historians, such as Michael Barnett in his ‘Empire of Humanity’, have delivered more complex accounts.

Critics have long denounced humanitarianism’s limits and even flaws. For French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, it is what’s left when a more optimistic humanism decays: A sort of bleak emergency response, a sign that the world has gotten worse, again.

In particular, during the post-Cold War decades of American hubris – misnamed the ‘unipolar moment’ – humanitarianism often allied with Western imperialism. In the war of aggression against Iraq that started in 2003, for instance, humanitarian organizations became servants to the aggressors, invaders, and occupiers.