UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep alarm Wednesday concerning the human price of intensified Israeli assaults within the Gaza Strip.
“The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the human toll of the intensified hostilities in Gaza. He condemns the reported killing of over a thousand people, including women and children, since the collapse of the ceasefire,” based on a press release from his spokesperson’s workplace.
Saying that “large-scale Israeli bombardments and ground operations have resulted in widespread destruction,” the assertion reported that it additionally led to “the displacement of over 100,000 Palestinians from Rafah in the last two days alone.”
Guterres additionally condemned an Israeli assault on a medical and emergency convoy on March 23, which killed 15 medical personnel and humanitarian employees.
“Medical personnel and humanitarian and emergency workers must be protected by all parties to the conflict at all times, as required by international humanitarian law,” the assertion confused.
Noting that not less than 408 support employees, together with 280 UN employees, have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, the UN chief demanded a “full, thorough and independent investigation” into the assaults focusing on humanitarian personnel.
“Nothing can justify the 7 October terror attacks,” he mentioned, including that “nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
He renewed his name for an “immediate restoration of the ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and unimpeded humanitarian access throughout Gaza.”
On reported requires Israel to grab extra land in Gaza, the assertion warned that UN Security Council Resolution 2735 “rejects any attempt at demographic or territorial change in the Gaza Strip.”
Guterres voiced concern about “inflammatory rhetoric” that requires Israeli forces to “capture extensive territory.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr