The initiative had to be rewritten several times due to objections from the United States, which has veto power in the organization. Washington ultimately abstained, as did Russia.
The UN Security Council on Friday approved a resolution to try to boost the shipment of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after a week of intensive negotiations.
The initiative, presented by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), had to be rewritten several times due to objections from the United States, which has veto power in the organization. Washington ultimately abstained, as did Russia.
The text asks the UN Secretary General to appoint a special coordinator to monitor and verify the shipment of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory.
Risk of famine and 893,000 Gazan children forcibly displaced
The European Union in particular warned this Friday about the risk of famine in Gaza. In a joint statement, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, and the Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, express their “dismay” at the evaluation of the Integrated Food Safety Classification (IPC), estimating that 100% of the Gaza population suffers from “acute food insecurity, while a quarter of the population faces catastrophic hunger and starvation.”
About 893,000 Gaza children have been forcibly displaced since the escalation of the conflict with the Israeli offensive, according to an estimate by the NGO Save the Children, based on data from the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
The Israeli attacks continue
This latest UN decision comes as around thirty Palestinians were killed overnight today in airstrikes and ground operations by the Israeli army against various points in the Gaza Strip.
At least eight people were killed in a bombing of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, while another six people were killed in airstrikes on Khan Younis, also in the south and an area where the Israeli army is concentrated. its ground and air operations.
On the other hand, a child was killed in an attack on a house in the Yabalia IDP camp (North), where nine bodies – including a mother and her five daughters – were recovered after another bomb attack on a home in the area. This was reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In addition, the Director General of the Gaza Ministry of Health, Munir al Burshwas injured in a bomb attack on his home in the city of Jabalia, an attack that resulted in the deaths of 16 members of his family, including his daughter, according to the Palestinian newspaper. Filastine.
On the other hand, Palestinian authorities today accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “demonizing” the Palestinian Authority to “facilitate Israel’s annexation.” West Bank“and to ‘separate’ it from the Gaza Strip in an attempt to ‘undermine the two-state solution’.
Finally, the forum of relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza confirmed on Friday the death of one of them, without his body having been recovered. The deceased is Gadi Haggai73, whose wife is among the prisoners, according to the Forum of Families of Kidnapped and Disappeared Persons.
Source: EITB
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