One year of devastation: marking the unprecedented atrocity, crimes, and suffering in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel [Video]

The Association of International Development Agencies – of which AFSC is a member – released the following statement on October 3, 2024. AIDA has a membership of over  80 international non-governmental and non-profit organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territory, and provides a forum for organizations to share experiences, identify challenges, and find solutions to support the humanitarian and development work of its members and the people and communities they support.

Over the past year, we have issued countless statements alerting the world of the horrific situation unfolding in Gaza. Each time, the same message was repeated with updated numbers reflecting the horrors inflicted on Palestinians, with no new words to describe the scale of what we are witnessing. On this one-year mark, we choose not to echo those warnings. What we want to say is simple: we never imagined the world would allow this horror to continue for so …