Standing next to a lengthy lineup of eager trucks on Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the famine in Gaza a “moral outrage.”
U.N secretary-general Antonio Guterres immediately put an end to hostilities between Gaza and Israel.
Speaking from the Egyptian side near the southern Gaza city of Rafah,where Israel intends to launch a ground assault despite widespread warnings of a potential calamity.
Approximately half of Gaza’s population has taken refuge there.
“Any further onslaught will make things even worse — worse for Palestinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all people in the region,” Guterres said.
He made his remarks the day after the United Nations Security Council was unable to agree on a resolution endorsing “an immediate and sustained cease-fire.”
Guterres said that International relief organisations have mostly placed the blame on Israel for the challenges in getting aid into Gaza.
“Here from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness … a long line of blocked red relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said.
An attack in Hamas that happened on October 7, is believed to be holding 100 hostages and approximately 1200 people killed who are mostly civilians.
Rafah is currently home to an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians.
According to Gaza health official,Israel’s invasion has killed more than 32,000 people,leaving much of the enclave in ruins and displacing some 80% of the 2.3 million people.
