Senator Loren Legarda’s Statement on the Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

No nation with a conscience can plead ignorance of what is unfolding.

The ongoing devastation and terror happening in Gaza is a human tragedy of unspeakable proportions. The continued blockade, indiscriminate bombardment, and obstruction of basic humanitarian assistance have pushed over two million civilians to the brink of famine, displacement, and death. These are not consequences of war, but of impunity left unchallenged.

I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing assault on Palestinian life and liberty, and the entrenched structures […]