Gaza’s humanitarian crisis deteriorating ‘beyond imagination’: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis was deteriorating to levels “beyond imagination.”
Guterres, in remarks on Tuesday, underscored that Israel had killed more than 2,000 Palestinians since it violated the ceasefire on March 18, with no end in sight for the killings in Gaza.
Guterres further added that Israeli military offensives in the occupied West Bank, settlement expansion, and forcible displacement are dramatically altering demographic and geographic realities.
The UN chief further said the complete blockade of food, fuel, and medicine into Gaza had deprived more than two million people of lifesaving relief,
Guterres said Gaza must remain an “integral part of a future Palestinian state.”
The UN chief said illegal Israeli settler violence continues “at alarmingly high levels”, with entire Palestinian communities facing “repeated assaults and destruction, sometimes abetted by Israeli soldiers”.
The UN chief gave his remarks at the quarterly UN Security Council open debate on the Middle East, including on the situation in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
Israeli occupation forces have killed some 50 more Palestinians and wounded 113 others in the past day.
The Palestinian death toll since the start of the US-Israeli genocide in October 2023 has topped 52,300, with nearly 118,000 others injured.
