Qurat Ul Ain<\/p>\n
The holy month of Ramadan has be\u00adgun for the entire Muslim world. However, the misery of brethren Palestinians has shadowed the fervour and zeal in celebrating the auspi\u00adciousness and subsequent festiv\u00adities of this holy month. Accord\u00ading to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health, since the insurgency by Hamas fighters on 7th October and the subsequent siege of Gaza by Isra\u00adel, more than 30,000 people have been killed with approximately 70,000 injured. The United Nations has report\u00aded the risk of thousands of Palestinians being on the verge of famine while the World Food Programme estimated child malnutrition in Gaza to be higher than anywhere in the world.
\nA horrific incident earlier this month that reinforced the demand for aid was the brutal massacre of more than 100 people by Israeli forces. By opening fire on people gathered around food trucks to receive aid, the situation disrupted into total chaos leading many to be tram\u00adpled and run over by trucks. With Israel imposing further restrictions on Muslim worshippers in Ramadan such as going to holy Muslim sites like Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the situation seems very dire. The past few months have witnessed Ga\u00adza\u2019s religious sites bear the brunt of con\u00adstant attacks with approximately 184 mosques and 3 churches demolished through bombardment.
\nOne of the warehouses of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Pal\u00adestinian Refugees in Gaza was struck in between attempts to provide food for the captured Palestinians. A recent attack on an aid convoy in Kuwait Square killed around twenty people and wounded ap\u00adproximately one hundred and fifty-five. While the Gaza Health Ministry claimed Israeli forces as perpetrators in the at\u00adtack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) put the blame on armed Palestinians for opening fire on Gaza\u2019s population seek\u00ading food aid. Whosoever remains the per\u00adpetrator, this incident is a tragic reality of how the innocent get butchered in their quest to survive.
\nThese dooming realities are a tragic de\u00adpiction of the facade created by global or\u00adganisations and world powers to bring peace to the anarchic international order. It seems that the passing of more than five months since hell broke loose on Gaza\u2019s population is not enough to bring any con\u00adcrete resolution to this feud. America\u2019s de\u00adcision to veto the United Nation\u2019s Security Council Resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is just one of the many ways in which veto powers discard the very effectiveness of an international organization. Ameri\u00adca\u2019s justification for the veto as an effort to prevent disruption of talks between Israel, Qatar, Egypt, and U.S seems to be flawed. An immediate ceasefire is what should have been a relief for Palestinians and for the entire Muslim world before the holy month of Ramadan began.
\nIt is without any doubt that in this pow\u00ader-mongering, selfish international sys\u00adtem, states are vying to bring relief to the oppressed. The Brazilian president ex\u00adplicitly criticised Israel for conducting \u2018genocide\u2019 against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and resonated war on Gaza to Adolf Hitler\u2019s campaign to exterminate the Jew\u00adish population. Hailed by Spain and oth\u00ader countries criticizing America for its ex\u00adploitative demeanour in employing the veto power, some of the eroded trust in the humanitarian spirit of states restores. Efforts of Arab countries like Algeria in pushing for a ceasefire resolution to be achieved signifies the Muslim countries\u2019 defiance of their brethren.
\nThe UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u2019s call for \u2018silencing the guns\u2019 in Gaza in honour of Ramadan remains in\u00adeffective. The foremost question in the present dilemma is the inability of the world\u2019s biggest intergovernmental or\u00adganisation to execute a logical and prob\u00adable decision given the befalling disaster on Gaza\u2019s population, particularly during Ramadan. The misery of the hungry. war trodden citizens of Gaza are a pinnacle for deliberation on the effectiveness of mul\u00adtilateral organizations with their current policy frameworks.
\nThe veto power in the United Nation\u2019s structural framework has always been in debate. It is not the first time that it has been used to fulfill one state\u2019s selfish mo\u00adtive in the face of other states pushing for a humanitarian solution to an existing crisis. It is at least 34 times the United States has used its veto power to block UN Security Council Resolutions that are not in conver\u00adgence with Israel\u2019s interests. The very au\u00addacity of big powers to use their veto in re\u00adjecting a desirable, fair and just solution for states mired in crisis is devastating.
\nIn such situations, it seems highly nec\u00adessary for the big multilateral organiza\u00adtions to reflect on structural hindrances to their effectiveness. Though interna\u00adtional organizations are a conglomeration of states, a bunch of like-minded states to\u00adgether can bring forth structural changes in multilateral organizations. Hope for a better future with concrete humanitarian achievements could be in the way if a path is paved for removing obstacles in the im\u00adplementation of just and logical decisions.
\nThe writer holds a master\u2019s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from NUST and is currently associated with Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad. She can be reached at qurat4887@gmail.com.
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Qurat Ul Ain The holy month of Ramadan has be\u00adgun for the entire Muslim world. However, the misery of brethren Palestinians has shadowed the fervour and zeal in celebrating the auspi\u00adciousness and subsequent festiv\u00adities of this holy month. Accord\u00ading to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health, since the insurgency by Hamas fighters on 7th October and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5054],"class_list":{"0":"post-398014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-qurat-ul-ain"},"yoast_head":"\n