Isabelle Defourny, president of Doctors Without Borders: “It is no longer possible to live in Gaza. »»

Gaza, strangled, hungry territory, destroyed. Guest on BFM TV, Isabelle Defourny, president of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has drawn up an extreme gravity: “Today, it is no longer possible to live in Gaza”she launched, the heavy voice of emotion. For almost 20 months, MSF has been present in the field alongside the Palestinian population. But the already catastrophic situation has changed in the unbearable. “We work with more than 2,000 Palestinians, and every day we see the food becoming scarce. »» International medical staff only eat once a day. As for the Palestinians, it is barely if they find a little rice. “Our burned patients no longer heal. They have nothing to eat. »»

Isabelle Defourny does not speak of simple humanitarian difficulties. She talks about a total collapse, a planned erasure: “For months, we have been witnessing mass murders. Children, civilians. But also to the destruction of everything that still allowed life. »» In Gaza, famine is no longer a risk, it is a reality. Access to water, care, drugs, a minimum of human dignity, everything is methodically crushed. The president of MSF, far from sanitized political speeches, uses the right words, those who disturb: “It is no longer possible to live in Gaza. »» A statement that sounds like a cry of alarm – and as an accusation. Because what humanitarian workers describe on site is not a natural tragedy. It is an organized, tolerated, often sustained violence. And while the world looks away, Gaza turns off.