The government of Slovenia says it has become the first European Union country to officially prohibit the export and transit of military weapons and equipment from or through its territory to Israel, or arms imports from Israel.
The Central European nation’s government said in a statement that the EU is unable to adopt “concrete measures” to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a result of “internal disagreements and disunity”
“People in Gaza are dying because humanitarian aid is systematically denied them,” it said, adding that “it is the duty of every responsible state to act, even if this means taking a step ahead of others”.
Many adults in Gaza are malnourished too, but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible, said Rob Williams, the CEO of the War Child Alliance.
“The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop,” he said.
"If you’re a child at a vulnerable age for brain development … if that development stops, that is not reversible.
"The trucks coming in now will do nothing to restore the injury that’s been done to the brains and the physical development of children who have been acutely malnourished.
“It’s also true to say that hundreds of thousands of children have permanent damage — permanent physical and cognitive damage — from a deliberate policy of restricting the supply of food in Gaza.”
