The current aid system Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing is “doomed to failure”, the director of the agency warned on Monday UN for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), who denounced the “collective punishment” tax by Israel.
“Let us be clear: the handful of convoys authorized through Rafah are nothing compared to the needs of more than 2 million people trapped in Gaza,” said Philippe Lazzarini, while asking Security Council members for help and demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
Likewise, he recalled that there must be, on the part of Israel, without mentioning it, a “strict respect for international law”said before the Security Council, which has been unable to adopt a resolution condemning the conflict and demanding a humanitarian ceasefire, due to the American veto.
“It is not an option, it is an obligation”, said. Likewise, he urged the flow of humanitarian aid on a “substantial and continuous basis,” including fuel, which Israel prevents because it could serve Hamas.
“The horrific attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel on October 7 were shocking. “The incessant bombing by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip is shocking”told the Security Council that he called an emergency meeting to analyze the situation of more than 2 million Gazans, who are being “dehumanized”.
“There is no safe place in Gaza,” he repeated. More than 670,000 displaced people are sheltered in UNWRA schools and buildings, living in difficult conditions. “atrocious and unhealthy”with limited food and water, sleeping on the ground without mats or in the open air.
“Hunger and desperation are turning into anger against the international community” and this is represented by UNWRA, he recalled.
According to the NGO Save the Children, 3,200 minors have died under Israeli bombs in Gaza in three weeks, he recalled, before warning that the 70% of those killed in the Strip in recent weeks are minors and women.
“It cannot be collateral damage,” he denounced, before warning that another crisis is being “triggered in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.””, where 115 Palestinians have died, including 33 children since October 7.
After remembering that “He has lost 64 colleagues in three weeks” -the last one, Samir, died this Monday along with his wife and eight children- the “atrocities do not absolve the state of Israel of its obligations under international law”he warned.
Source: AFP
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