The commissioner general for the main UN agency in Palestine warns that the entire population of Gaza is being dehumanized and calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. The speakers highlight the breakdown in civil order, lack of clean water, and high child mortality rate. Efforts are being made to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council.
The entire population of Gaza is becoming “dehumanised” the commissioner general for the main UN agency in Palestine has told the UN security council, adding that a ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions.
Four previous draft UN security council resolutions on the crisis have been vetoed either by Russia or the US. Efforts are now being made by the 10 elected members of the security council – including Brazil, the current security council president – to frame a resolution that the five permanent members would feel forced to adopt.of “collective punishment” of the people of Gaza, and of forcing their displacement from the north of the territory to the south – where they are still not safe.
“My UNRWA colleagues are the only glimmer of hope for the entire Gaza Strip … but they are running out of fuel, water, food and medicine and will soon be unable to operate,” said the Swiss-Italian official. She said there had been 76 attacks on health care bodies in Gaza with 20 hospitals damaged. “Let me be clear, these sites are protected by international law,” she said, adding that warnings before attacks did not alter hospitals’ protected status.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador, said she supported humanitarian pauses to allow hostages to get out, to allow foreign citizens to leave and to allow safe passage for civilians. Senior UN aid official Lisa Doughten said more than one border crossing was needed to deliver aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, but Kerem Shalom which is controlled by Israel is the only one equipped to take enough trucks.
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