A Caritas worker walks through destroyed buildings in Gaza City on March 16, 2024. Photo: OSV News/courtesy Caritas Poland. Caritas Internationalis issued a statement on “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” following the Israel Defense Forces’ latest incursion into the embattled enclave, where the United Nations declared famine last week.
“This is not war. It is the systematic destruction of civilian life,” the renowned international Catholic aid organisation wrote in its August 25 statement. “The siege of Gaza has become a machinery of annihilation, sustained by impunity and the silence, or complicity, of powerful nations.”
“Famine here is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a deliberate strategy: blocking aid, bombing food convoys, destroying infrastructure, and denying basic needs,” the aid group declared. “Caritas Internationalis bears witness to this horror.”