The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says a decision from the International Court of Justice will take significant time, which the people in blockaded Gaza do not have, Al Jazeera reports.

“Waiting for any kind of legal recourse to end Israel’s intentional choking of aid, food and medicine into Gaza will condemn yet more Palestinians to avoidable death, while the world watches on impassively, doing nothing to avoid this indiscriminate and abhorrent cruelty,” Claire Nicolet, MSF head of emergencies, said in a statement.

Nicolet added that the situation in Gaza is “dire on every level” after Israel imposed a total ban on humanitarian aid and supplies on March 2, which is “severely limiting” MSF’s capacity as a humanitarian group to respond in “any meaningful or effective way”.

“States need to do more to pressure Israeli authorities into lifting the siege and letting aid enter the war-torn enclave at scale to prevent more suffering and death,” she said.