The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, said this Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned about the clear violations” of humanitarian law international in Gaza and reiterated its calls for a humanitarian ceasefire immediate.
At the opening of a UN Security Council meeting on the current situation in the Middle East, held on the 18th day of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, Guterres stated that the The scenario is getting worse by the moment and divisions are fragmenting societies, in addition to tensions that threaten to “overflow” to the rest of the region.
Guterres unequivocally condemned you “acts of terror” Is “without precedents” of October 7 perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, highlighting that “nothing can justify the deliberate murder, attack and kidnapping of civilians.”
However, the UN Secretary General admitted that it is “important to recognize” that the attacks by the Islamist group Hamas “did not come out of nowhere,” stressing that the Palestinian people “were subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
“They saw that their lands were continually devoured by settlements and devastated by violence; his economy was stifled; Its people were displaced and their houses demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their situation have been fading,” Guterres continued.
The UN leader stressed, however, that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the terrible attacks by Hamas,” further stressing that “these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Source: TSF
