“Humanitarian aid is not only necessary — it is a matter of life and death, refusing it is not a delay, but a sentence. Every hour without food, water, medicine and shelter causes deep harm. We have seen it: Men holding out in the sun for hours in the hope of a simple meal. This is a humiliation that is hard to bear when you see it with your own eyes. It is morally unacceptable and unjustifiable.”

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem