The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, is shocked by Israeli bombing in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, which caused dozens of deadhis spokesperson said.
“The Secretary-General is shocked by the escalation of violence in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of Palestinians, including women and children, in Israeli airstrikes on residential areas of the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp,” Guterres’ spokesperson said. , Stephane. Dujarric, in his daily press conference.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Tuesday’s attack in The largest refugee camp in the Gaza Stripattack that the Israeli army confirmed, indicating that it targeted one of those responsible for the Hamas attack on October 7.
This Wednesday, Gaza’s civil defense announced that the Israeli army had attacked the refugee camp again and that this new bombing had “killed entire families.”
“The Secretary General reiterates that all parties must respect international humanitarian lawincluding the principles of differentiation, proportionality and precaution” and “condemns in the strongest terms the murder of civilians,” Dujarric added, repeating that “All parties must end this violence and horrific suffering” and demanding the release of the hostages by Hamas.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths also previously condemned the bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp, describing it as “the latest atrocity perpetrated against the people of Gaza.”
“This is simply the The latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza.where the fighting entered a phase still the most terrifyingwith increasingly dire humanitarian consequences,” the official said in a statement, stressing that “the inability to act now will have consequences far beyond the region” and that This “is a global crisis.”
“In Gaza, women, children and men are starving, traumatized and killed by bombing. They have lost all faith in humanity and all hope in the future,” insisted Martin Griffiths, returning from a trip to Israel and the West Bank. , reiterating its condemnation of the “brutal” Hamas attacks of October 7.
More than 8,500 people were killed and thousands more were injured in the bombings with which Israel responded to the attack launched by Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union and which controls Gaza since 2007when he expelled the Fatah party, which governs the West Bank, from the territory.
“Meanwhile, the world seems unable or even unwilling to act. This cannot continue,” Griffiths stressed, calling for “repeated humanitarian pauses” in the fighting to allow more humanitarian aid to enter and Hamas to release the hostages.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, managed to travel to Gazathrough the Rafah border crossing, said Stéphane Dujarric.
Lazzarini is “the highest-ranking UN official authorized to enter Gaza since the start of the war,” he added.
UNRWA, the agency whose dozens of employees were killed in the Israeli attacks, highlighted the fuel need in Gaza and “more humanitarian aid”.
In total, 217 aid trucks have entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing since October 21, said Stéphane Dujarric, compared to about 500 trucks that entered the enclave daily before October 7.
Israel has been launching airstrikes on Gaza since October 7, when Hamas militants attacked Israeli villages and military posts. killing about 1,400 people and taking 240 hostages.
Israeli forces have also stepped up operations in the West Bank, occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Source: TSF
