This Sunday, the UN Secretary General regretted the paralysis of the United Nations in the face of the war between the Islamist group Hamas and the fact that the Security Council did not vote in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza.
In a speech at the Doha Forum in Qatar, António Guterres stated that the Security Council is “paralyzed by geostrategic divisions”, which compromise its ability to find solutions to the war in the Gaza Strip.
“The authority and credibility of the Security Council have been seriously compromised” by its late response to the conflict, a damage to its reputation that was compounded by the United States’ veto on Friday of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to Guterres.
The draft resolution was prepared following Guterres’ unprecedented invocation of Article 99 of the United Nations Charter, which allows the UN Secretary-General to draw the attention of the Security Council to an issue that “may jeopardize the maintenance of international peace and security”.
“I reiterated my call for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared (…) unfortunately the Security Council did not do so. I can promise that I will not give up,” Guterres lamented.
The United States, an ally of Israel, reiterated on Friday its position against a ceasefire.
“We run a serious risk of collapse of the humanitarian system,” Guterres also warned at the Doha Forum.
“The situation is rapidly evolving towards a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for the Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region,” said the UN Secretary-General.
The Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip released a report of 17,490 deaths, most of them women and children, in the Palestinian enclave since the start of the war with Israel in early October.
Its unprecedented attack on Israel, on October 7, left more than 1,200 Israelis dead, most of them civilians, in addition to more than 240 people kidnapped, according to the authorities of the Jewish State.
Source: TSF
