UN Secretary-General Denounces Israel's Blockade

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on April 8 condemned Israel for obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza and called for immediate action to protect civilians. Addressing journalists, the UN chief said that more than a month passed "without a drop of aid into Gaza. No food. No fuel. No medicine. No commercial supplies." 

News agencies inform that Israel began to block aid at the beginning of March, in violation of the ceasefire conditions it had agreed to, to block phase two of the ceasefire from being implemented and to force the Palestinian Resistance into simply releasing all Israeli captives without any guarantees for the people of Gaza.

Citing the Geneva Conventions, Guterres stressed that Israel, as the occupying power, has the responsibility to provide food and medical supplies to the people of Gaza. "The Israeli authorities' newly proposed 'authorization mechanisms' for aid delivery risk further controlling and callously limiting aid down to the last calorie and grain of flour," Guterres told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. 

Guterres demanded guarantees for the unhindered entry of aid to the coastal territory. He also raised the alarm about the situation in the West Bank, calling the current path of stepped up displacement of Palestinians and land seizures for illegal Israeli settlements "a dead end -- totally intolerable in the eyes of international law and history."

(UN, Al Mayadeen)

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