SHAH ALAM - Dr Fauziah Mohd Hassan, one of the volunteers with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition x Thousand Madleens to Gaza humanitarian mission said despite a declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza, there are reports of continued Israeli attacks.
She said it was merely a temporary situation, not a genuine truce.
She condemned what she described as a“false promise” of the current ceasefire in Gaza, following reports that Israel has committed more than 80 violations, killing 97 Palestinians, including children and entire families.
“We are actually hoping for a ceasefire because we want all the aid to come in and we want all the bombs to stop.
“But you know they said ceasefire, (which to them meant) 'you cease I fire'. So we know the Zionist will never keep their words,” she said.
Dr Fauziah warned that Israel’s actions showed that the truce was merely political optics rather than a genuine commitment to peace.
“Now they are also annexing the West Bank and they are digging more and more under the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that's number one, taking the whole of the Palestinian land and number two is to exterminate and annihilate all the Palestinians from Palestine,” she said.
She said the so-called ceasefire had allowed Israel to regroup and restore its military strength.
“So if they think that the ceasefire is going to be making the Palestinians strong, they will attack and maybe they need the pause to make sure that they also rejuvenate their armies because we know their armies are all very, very tired and very, very demoralised,” she said.
Dr Fauziah added that the Israeli authorities “do not see Palestinians as human beings.”
She also criticised the United States (US) for enabling Israel’s actions.
“As you know, Trump or the US is the biggest supporter of Israel. Without US, Israel will never survive.
“So it is expected for Trump to support and to justify giving the weapons and so on and so forth,” she said.
Dr Fauziah noted that there was a growing shift in American political sentiment regarding unconditional support for Israel.
“Until and unless we change the voters’ opinion in the US, then we will have a government that is not supporting Israel.
“Now I have just read that 50 per cent of the Democrats’ supporters are saying that they are not going to elect those who are supported by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),” she said.
She called the development “a great change,” adding that, “those people who were taking money from AIPAC to become leaders of the community will not be supported. So, hopefully we'll get a new set of leaders who are actually pro-Palestine and more just.”
Dr Fauziah reiterated that the humanitarian community’s hope for peace will persist but as long as violations continued, the ceasefire remained only in name.