The Secretary -General of the United Nations called Antonio Guterres To conduct an immediate and independent investigation into the death and injury of Palestinians as they seek to obtain aid in Gaza on Sunday and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Guterres expressed his alarm from the accident, saying that “it is unacceptable that the Palestinians risk their lives for food.”
He said that Israel has clear obligations under International human law To agree to and facilitate humanitarian aid, stressing the need to restore the entry of assistance without obstacles on a large scale in order to meet the enormous needs in Gaza immediately.
He also stressed the need to allow the United Nations to work safely and safely in light of full respect for humanitarian principles.
The Secretary -General of the United Nations renewed the call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the release of Israeli prisoners without conditions, considering that this is “the only way to ensure security for all and there is no military solution to the conflict.”
It is reported that Guterres had confirmed earlier that United Nations You will not participate in any plan to distribute aid in Gaza, fails to respect International law The principles of humanity, integrity, independence and neutrality.
The Euro -Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights had accused Israel of transferring the mechanism of distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza Strip To “an additional tool within the system Genocide“For Palestinian civilians.
Dozens were killed and wounded after targeting Israeli army Aid to the west of Rafah was supervised in cooperation with an American company.
The observatory confirmed that insistence Israel To continue this mechanism aims to push towards Forced displacement For the residents of the Strip, as the crossings were closed to aid for more than 90 days, which prompted 2.2 million Palestinians towards Famine.
The Observatory – a transfer of the Ministry of Health and the Government Media Office – recorded the death of 49 people and the injury of 305 others in aid distribution sites since last Tuesday, including 32 martyrs and more than 250 injured at dawn yesterday, Sunday in Rafah And in the middle of the sector.