4 climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, a climate activist who has made a global impact on the climate crisis, wrote an article for The Guardian newspaper titled "We won't stop speaking out about Gaza's suffering - no climate justice without human rights". The article reminded that more than 15,000 people, including at least 6,000 children, have lost their lives in Gaza due to Israeli attacks, and that schools, shelters and refugee camps have been targeted.
"The global north looks the other way"
Greta Thunberg, Alde Nilsson, Jamie Mater and Raquel Frescia reminded that many United Nations (UN) experts have described what is happening in Gaza as a "genocide in the making" and emphasized that the "global north" is "looking the other way".
"Despite this horror, some have chosen to focus the public debate on attempts by young people in the climate justice movement to delegitimize their statements on Gaza," the climate activists said, explaining their position on the war in Gaza as follows: