United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres is shocked by the Israeli bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, which left dozens dead, his spokesman said.
“The Secretary-General is shocked by the escalation of violence in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of Palestinians, including women and children, in Israeli airstrikes on residential areas of the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp.”Guterres’ spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said in his daily press briefing.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in the bombing of the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, an attack that the Israeli military confirmed and indicated targeted one of those responsible for the October 7 Hamas attack.
This Wednesday, Gaza’s civil defense announced that the Israeli army had attacked the refugee camp again and that this new bombardment had “killed entire families.”
“The Secretary-General reiterates that all parties must respect international humanitarian law, including the principles of differentiation, proportionality and precaution” and “condemns in the strongest terms the killing of civilians”Dujarric added, reiterating that “all parties must put an end to this shocking violence and suffering” and demanded the release of the hostages by Hamas.
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s chief humanitarian officer, also previously condemned the bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp, describing it as “the latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza”.
“This is simply the latest atrocity to hit the people of Gaza, where fighting has entered an even more terrifying phase, with increasingly dire humanitarian consequences.”the official said in a statement, stressing that “the failure 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 bombings. They have lost all faith in humanity and all hope in the future,” stressed Martin Griffiths, as he returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank. and reiterates 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, which Israel retaliated against an attack by Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union and has controlled Gaza since 2007, when the country expelled the party from the Fatah area, which rules the West Bank.
“Meanwhile, the world seems unable or even unwilling to take action. This cannot continue,” Griffiths stressed, calling for “repeated humanitarian pauses” in the fighting to allow more humanitarian aid in and for Hamas to release the hostages.
The head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, managed to travel to Gaza via the Rafah border crossing today, Stéphane Dujarric said.
Lazzarini is “the highest-ranking UN official authorized to enter Gaza since the start of the war,” he added.
UNRWA, the organization whose staff were killed in Israeli attacks, stressed the need for fuel in Gaza and “more humanitarian aid.”
A total of 217 aid trucks have entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing since Oct. 21, Stéphane Dujarric said, compared to about 500 trucks entering the enclave daily before Oct. 7.
Israel has been carrying out airstrikes on Gaza since October 7, when Hamas militants attacked Israeli villages and military posts, killing around 1,400 people and taking 240 hostages.
Israeli forces have also stepped up operations in the West Bank, which has been occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Source: DN
