Tigray is under complete siege and the only functioning hospital has run out of medication and food for malnourished children. How can world leaders continue to leave the people of Tigray in the dark?
#AirDropFoodToTigray
to save lives.
@antonioguterres
@SamanthaJPower
Eyasped speaks up against institutionalized injustices every chance he gets. He frequently organized similar campaigns for political prisoners and others silenced, he is behind bars now for being a voice of the people.
@EthioHRC
@amnesty
@USEmbassyAddis
@CPJAfrica
#Eyasped
We have heard that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is announcing her report on human rights abuses in Tigray.Whatever its ‘findings’, the report is fraught with a number of problems. First, the investigation didn’t cover all of the heinous crime spots in Tigray. Second,
The UAE is helping Ethiopia kill, rape and starve the people of Tigray. This is why its Gulf ally’s adventurism is Israel’s problem, too | Alex de Waal
@WorldPeaceFdtn
Opinion
We appreciate the efforts of the
@ICRC
& others trying to help but one thing must be crystal clear to the IC to address the humanitarian catastrophe in
#Tigray
head on: the siege & the blockade of food + meds are by design - part of the genocidal campaign to wipe out the … 1/
It is been a year since the
#IrobMassacre
, and the minority group is still under the illegal occupation of Eritrean forces. The existence of the minority group is under imminent threat - the atrocities waged against the Irob people must be condemned.
#1YearIrobMassacre
@vickyford
"In
#Tigray
, single-use items such as gloves, surgical materials and even chest drains are being washed and reused, increasing the risk of infections...Patients are receiving expired medications [and] oxygen plants are not working anymore"
#ethiopia
"We are displaced from different corners of
#Tigray
. The situation is horrific. No banking and power services. The people of Tigray are under a complete siege. We need food and medical supplies. Pregnant mothers and children are dying..."
#ReconnectTigray
#TigrayGenocide
@UN
Armed forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighbouring western Tigray, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
Irob is still under the illegal occupation of Eritrean forces, Western Tigray is fully occupied by Amhara militia + special forces. The region is still under a state sanctioned communications black out and de-facto blockade.
#TigrayGenocide
#UNHumanRightsDay
@vickyford
It is important to acknowledge that drone attacks and air strikes are being conducted on Tigray while it is low on medical supplies, & essential services have been blocked.
#StopBombingTigray
@RepKarenBass
@VanHollenForMD
PETITION TO NATO: PLEASE PUT PRESSURE ON TURKEY & PRESIDENT ERDOGAN TO STOP SUPPLYING DRONES AND OTHER ARMAMENTS TO THE GENOCIDAL GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA.
In a call with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday, PM Abiy said Ethiopia wouldn’t ease up humanitarian access for the U.N unless the TPLF withdrew forces that crossed Tigray’s borders into neighboring states.
Scores of patients with treatable illness & children are dying due to deadly blockade by Ethiopia. The lack of supplies is largely the result of a months-long government aid blockade.
Complete collapse of healthcare & man-made famine
#EndTigraySiege
@UN
@ChrisCoons
@PowerUSAID
#TigraySiege
: “Deaths are alarmingly increasing,” including from easily preventable diseases like rabies as medicines run out or expire, the head of Tigray’s health bureau, Hagos Godefay, told The Associated Press
@AP
Warcrimes are being openly committed on
#Tigrayan
civilians by
#Ethiopia
& its Allies,
#Mekelle
is now under drones attack, ethnic cleansing & genocide is committed by drones brought to HOA by foreign gov'ts, these must be serious concerns to z interl community, (No fly zone)
Armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighboring western Tigray,
@amnesty
and
@hrw
said on Thursday.
#Ethiopia
|
#Amhara
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#Tigrayans
Ethiopia imposed a comprehensive & unlawful blockade which prevents food & aid from entering Tigray. With no communication, banking & electricity services; millions are in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
Complete collapse of healthcare & man-made famine
#EndTigraySiege
@UN
The head of Tigray’s health bureau, Dr Hagos Godefay, published data that shows the effect of the siege and destruction of health system in Tigray. Areas currently inaccessible are believed to be much worse.
Please read more here
“We’re now having to choose who goes hungry to prevent another from starving. The lack of food and fuel means we’ve only been able to reach 20% of those we should have in this latest distribution in Tigray. We’re on the edge of a humanitarian disaster.”
Death toll from Thursday's ENDF airstrike that hit a residential area in
#Mekelle
,
#Tigray
rises to 10, including 3 children while 21 wounded, said Dr. Hayelom Kebede, research director at Mekele’s Ayder Referral Hospital.
#Ethiopia
.
Ethiopia is deliberately starving its own citizens. The world should apply whatever pressure it can to force it to stop.
#StopTigrayFamine
#EndTigraySiege
Roughly 900,000 people are currently experiencing starvation or famine in
#Tigray
.
Learn more about why this is happening, and what is next from
@DavidRefIntl
.
#StopTigrayFamine
Day 416 of
#TigrayGenocide
Each day the genocidal war on
#Tigray
|ans continues, the closer to extermination minority groups such as Kunama and Irob are. The int’l community must not sit idly while an entire population are starved to death, killed or unlawfully detained!
@UN_HRC
@MHeiro
@WaleedYOsman
@AlmoftiMaha
Matias, I have traveled to Sudan to interview Tigrayan refugees. I documented that Ethiopia, with Eritrea's aid, has created concentration camps. They are torturing and starving children. Eyewitness reports are corroborated by satellite imagery and video.
The pain of only being able to look at pictures and video as our family and friends continue to die. No phone call or message to hear if they are safe. Just endless worrying.
#AllowAccessToTigray
“After 14 months of conflict in northern
#Ethiopia
, more people than ever need urgent food assistance. With no food, no fuel, no access, we are on the edge of a major humanitarian disaster," said
@WFP
spokesman Tomson Phiri told reporters.
#Ethiopia
""Our hospital is out of supplies," says a doctor at
#Tigray
’s largest one. After more than a year of war some 400,000 people are starving & millions more are running out of food. Drones & fighter jets, meanwhile, pound Tigrayans from the air."
Eyasped faced difficult health conditions due to the unhealthy prison envi. He is denied proper health care access, even if he is granted a referral decision from the Dr.s in the prison facility. Get him proper medical care, free him.
@EthioHRC
@amnesty
@USEmbassyAddis
#Eyasped
Tigray residents are digging out airstrike victims from the rubble. Listen as this man describes the gravity of the situation. He calls the Ethiopia’s war on Tigray, which is run by a Nobel Prize recipient, Abiy Ahmed, a genocide & asks the world for help.
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel Peace Prize just to turn around & start a war of his own. Now 4 months into Tigray's blockade, Ahmed is using food as a weapon of war & more than 100,000 children are at risk of dying of starvation. What a peace maker he turned out to be.
Tigray for over 426 days is bleeding 🩸
⛔No food and water services
⛔No electricity
⛔No Bank services
⛔No Media access, internet or phones
⛔No transportation access
⛔No drug supply
⛔No Hospital service , school
⛔No Humanitarians service
#StopTigraySiege
One year ago Berhane Gebretsadik (Central zone administrator) said that the situation
on the ground is dire. Food and non-food items are either looted or
destroyed. He also added that if urgent emergency assistance is not mobilized hundreds
of thousands might starve to death.
"Respect of IHL helps ensure food security.
Humanitarian law protects crops, livestock, water installations and supplies."
#TigrayFamine
is caused because until June all of these, including hospitals, were a target. Since then resupply is being hampered.
There has been a new wave of atrocities by Amhara forces against Tigrayan civilians in several towns in Western
#Tigray
. Without urgent international action to prevent further atrocities, Tigrayans—particularly those in detention, are at grave risk.
“Patients at Ayder have succumbed to otherwise non-life-threatening wounds because the hospital has run out of gauze. Post-surgery patients have died of septic shock due to the shortage of antibiotics.”
#AllowAccessToTigray
#EndTigraySiege
@PowerUSAID
@WHO
Tigray is under complete siege & the only functioning hospital has run out of medication & food for malnourished children. How can world leaders continue to leave the the people of Tigray in the dark?
People are dying.
#EndTigraySiege
@UN
@POTUS
@PowerUSAID
@UNHumanRights
@WHO
“Deaths are alarmingly increasing,” as medicines run out or expire, the head of Tigray’s health bureau, Hagos Godefay, told the AP late last year as findings were being compiled. “This is one of the worst times of my life, I can tell you.”
#TigrayGenocide
"There is no way that the people are surviving there."
Let that sink in for a moment.
Over 5 million people ar risk of dying because of a humanitarian blockade.
#TigrayGenocide
While in
#Ethiopia
, I initially planned to travel to Mekelle to assess the humanitarian situation and see
@USAID
's life-saving programs, but I was unable to go because of the airstrikes.
Tigray forces in Ethiopia say they withdrew from neighboring regions to "open the door to humanitarian aid."
Ethiopia has largely blocked aid to Tigray since launching an offensive rights groups call ethnic cleansing — displacing 2 million people and pushing 400,000 into famine.
“Eritrean forces in northern Ethiopia (
#Tigray
) have blocked access to humanitarian assistance. They have also committed serious and widespread human rights abuses, including rape and the killing of children..”
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
The looting & vandalism of health facilities the stealing of ambulances the lack of access to medication the absence of dependable electricity & the scarce supply of food & clean water will lead to long-term public health concerns for the region.
#TigrayGenocide
@SecBlinken
The siege in Tigray is causing bank services to be blocked resulting in the inability of people to withdraw savings to purchase food.
#EUActNow
#StopTigrayFamine