After almost five months of Israeli operation in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave is in a more than critical humanitarian situation.
According to the UN, famine is inevitable and a cessation of fighting is necessary to avoid a massacre.
Indeed, with the threat of an Israeli offensive on the city of Rafah, there is no longer a combat-free zone in which to take refuge.
The UN Security Council met urgently on Thursday, while the Hamas Ministry of Health announced 30,000 deaths in Gaza since the start of the offensive, and a distribution of humanitarian aid turned into drama after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd of starving Palestinians.
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Intense diplomatic negotiations – where the United States and Qatar play a leading role – are underway to achieve a new 40-day truce during Ramadan.
The release of 132 Israeli hostages, held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is also at the center of concerns.
Part of the Israeli population is putting pressure on its government to find them as quickly as possible.
The United States, Israel's unwavering ally, is beginning to harden its position towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to find a way out of the conflict.
Argentine architect, caricaturist and graphic humorist, Sergio Langer published his first drawings in the magazine Humor Registrado in 1979.
Since its creation in 2003, he has collaborated with the satirical magazine Barcelona in Buenos Aires, and also publishes in Lento, a monthly magazine in Montevideo (Uruguay), in the magazine Mongolie located in Madrid, and in the weekly Courrier International in Paris.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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