After months of silence, former footballer David Beckham shared a post calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.
David Beckham has finally spoke out about the conflict between Israel and Palestine after months of remaining silent. The football icon, 50, is an ambassador for UNICEF, who last year called for a ceasefire, the release of Israeli hostages and launched an appeal for the children of Gaza.
He failed to share a post from UNICEF UK to his millions of followers about their flagship appeal in 2024. David was among the almost half of the organisation’s high profile supporters who hadn’t shared a post.
The England sports star for the first time ever shared a post with UNICEF in March of this year. After months of silence, David has now publicly reacted by sharing another image from the organization.
UNICEF stated in a post that David liked and shared that UNICEF “welcomes the announcement by Israel to implement most urgently needed humanitarian pauses to increase access to aid in and across Gaza.
Children have been deprived of the basic necessities to survive since the ceasefire’s demise in March. They lack a safe place to go because they are frightened and traumatized. Gaza’s population, which is more than 2 million people, is severely undernourished. One in three people has been starving for days, and 80% of all deaths have been caused by starvation are reported as children.
“This is a chance to start reversing this catastrophe and rescuing lives.” UNICEF has delivered consistently, it continued. However, we can do much more if commercial trucks and designated humanitarian corridors are constructed to facilitate our convoy movements. UNICEF provided nutrition supplies for 147 trucks inside Gaza in July, including milk, high-energy biscuits, and baby food.
We are prepared to increase this figure, ensure that more life-saving aid is delivered to Gaza on time, and offer hope to a depleted population.
UNICEF calls for a ceasefire, the unrestricted flow of humanitarian aid across Gaza, the protection of children, and the release of all hostages so that their loved ones can visit them.
On his own post, David tagged UNICEF but added no further comment to his 88.3million followers. His previous silence prompted backlash over how he responded different to Gaza and Ukraine.
He handed over control of his Instagram account to a Ukrainian doctor working in the city of Kharkiv in March 2022, to highlight how Russia’s invasion was impacting the country’s pregnant women and children.
The same month, the football legend and his wife Victoria Beckham donated £1 million to a UNICEF appeal to support Ukrainian children affected by the devastating conflict.
David, who was a Qatar 2022 World Cup ambassador, has been accused of being less explicit regarding where he stands when it comes to the plight of Palestinian people.
Other celebrities who remained silent about UNICEF’s Protect Children in the Gaza crisis appeal included Robbie Williams, Tom Hiddleston, Cat Deeley, Charley Boorman, Claudia Schiffer, David Harewood, Lord David Puttnam, Emma Bunton, James Nesbitt, Jessie Ware and Martin Bell.
Olivia Coleman, Michael Sheen, Ewan McGregor, Gemma Chan, Jemima Khan, Levison Wood, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sir Chris Hoy, Muzoon Almellehan, Sir Andy Murray, Suzy Eddie Izzard and Ramla Ali all called for a ceasefire.
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Source: Mirror
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