Maat Foundation condemns the killing of four humanitarian workers in the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia

Okeil:: We call on the United Nations to conduct an independent international investigation into possible war crimes in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia

Nourhan Mustafa: Relief workers must be protected during armed conflict in accordance with agreements Geneva

The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights condemned the killing of four humanitarian aid workers on Friday, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, during the military operation launched by the Ethiopian government since the beginning of last November, which led to the killing of hundreds of civilians..

For his part, Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation, said that we are extremely concerned about what is happening in the Tigray region, especially since the region has been cut off from the world since last November, when the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abyei Ahmed launched a military operation aimed at expelling the local leaders of the Liberation Front. Tigray Al-Shabiya, Aqil added that many human rights reports reported hundreds of deaths and thousands fleeing the fighting, which may amount to war crimes, and therefore we call on the United Nations to conduct an independent international investigation into these crimes..

In the same context, Nourhan Mustafa, director of the International Humanitarian Law Unit at the Maat Foundation, affirmed that according to the Fourth Convention of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, relief workers must be protected during armed conflicts, and Mustafa added that according to following up on the situation in Tigray, we found that the situation in northern Ethiopia can be classified as a conflict. A non-international armed man, and therefore subject to provisions #International humanitarian law at #Armed Conflict Non-international, including Protocol II,

The Director of the International Humanitarian Law Unit called for adherence to humanitarian standards in the ongoing war in northern Ethiopia and to take effective and swift measures to protect workers in the field of providing humanitarian aid so that they can fulfill their humanitarian role and duty within the region in conflict..

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