{"id":33708,"date":"2023-11-29T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/?p=33708"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:34:13","slug":"the-extension-of-the-temporary-pause-in-gaza-must-become-a-permanent-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/ms\/the-extension-of-the-temporary-pause-in-gaza-must-become-a-permanent-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"The extension of the temporary pause in Gaza must become a permanent ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The extension of the temporary truce agreement is welcome, Islamic Relief points out, but this must now be another step towards agreeing a permanent ceasefire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The truce has ensured a pause of the bombing of civilians in Gaza for the first time in 7 weeks, and the safe release of some of the hostages and detained children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But the aid allowed into Gaza over the last few days has been woefully insufficient to address this humanitarian catastrophe and many civilians are at risk of dying from hunger and disease.\u00a0The humanitarian needs are enormous and a couple of extra days is not enough to make a big difference. People displaced to southern Gaza have still not been allowed to go to return north over the past few days, and have reportedly been shot at if they try. People continue to live in fear of what will happen after this latest extension runs out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">We desperately need a permanent ceasefire and an end to Israel\u2019s siege on Gaza, so that humanitarian aid can enter at the scale needed to address this crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Gaza is in ruins, with almost half of all homes now damaged or destroyed and stocks of food, medicine and water still critically low. Three quarters of hospitals are no longer functioning, and some people are on the verge of starvation because so little food has been allowed in over the last 7 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">More than 1.7 million people have been forced from their homes, with many of them seeking protection in severely overcrowded shelters where diseases are rapidly spreading as children sleep out in the rain and hundreds of people share a single toilet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Please help Islamic Relief to support and stand up for people in desperate need in Gaza.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Donate to our\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/PalestineAppeal-irmalaysia\"><strong>Palestine Appeal<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]The extension of the temporary truce agreement is welcome, Islamic Relief points out, but this must now be another step towards agreeing a permanent ceasefire.\u00a0\u00a0 The truce has ensured a pause of the bombing of civilians in Gaza for the first time in 7 weeks, and the safe release of some of the hostages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-info","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33733,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708\/revisions\/33733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}