News
August 2009
World Humanitarian Day
August 19, 2009
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - "Gaza - Destruction and Hope"
On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day (19 August 2009) and in view of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the President of the General Assembly is circulating the report, entitled "Gaza - Destruction and Hope", of his Chief Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs, Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, who visited Gaza at the President's request. Dr. Cahill writes: "Seeing Gaza in February 2009, shortly after the Israeli invasion, reminded me of Dore’s l9th century engravings of hell for Dante’s Inferno. The level of destruction conjured up images of Dresden or Hiroshima at the end of World War II. There were areas in the northern Gaza Strip where not a single structure was standing. An Amnesty International report has deemed this “wanton destruction” of civilian buildings on such a massive scale as constituting `war crimes'."
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