Gaza deaths show that something is wrong with the military operation – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

It is the Reuters news agency that interviewed the UN chief on Wednesday afternoon. To the agency, Secretary-General António Guterres says that the UN is in “intense talks” with Israel, the US and Egypt about getting humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, and that the humanitarian situation is catastrophic right now. Guterres criticizes the number of civilians who have been killed in Gaza. – In a few days we have thousands upon thousands of children killed in Gaza, which means that there is something obviously wrong in the way the military operations are carried out, he tells Reuters. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres himself went to the border post between Gaza and Egypt in Rafah, but was not allowed to enter the Palestinian side. He is being looked after by Egyptian border guards. Photo: KEROLOS SALAH / AFP António Guterres says that the dramatic humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people do not help the perception of Israel in the eyes of the international community. – It is important to ensure that Israel understands that it is against Israel’s interests to see terrible images of the dramatically large humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people on a daily basis, says the UN chief. – War crimes on both sides The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, is now at the border crossing in Rafah, on the Egyptian side. He says, according to Reuters, that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are war crimes. – There is also the unlawful forced evacuation of civilians, he says. At the same time, he states that the Hamas attack on 7 October is also a war crime. – The atrocities carried out by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes – the same is true of the fact that they are still holding hostages, says Türk. Secretary-General António Guterres also says that it is absolutely essential that all prisoners held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip be released. He says it is essential that all parties to the war follow the international law of war. The Secretary-General says that there is a dire need for a humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.



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