UN Secretary-General: “Level of humanitarian aid is completely inadequate”
With the Gaza Strip’s medical system on the verge of collapse due to the Israeli attack, CNN and others reported on the 31st (local time) that about 80 injured Palestinians will leave Gaza through the border with Egypt on the 1st of next month.
CNN reported on this day, citing an Egyptian border checkpoint official, that 81 injured Palestinians would be transferred to an Egyptian hospital through the Rafah border in Egypt the next morning.
It is said that these 81 people are seriously injured and are scheduled to receive treatment at an Egyptian hospital immediately.
The Washington Post also reported, citing Egyptian media, that Hamas and Egypt had agreed to transfer 81 injured people tomorrow.
The Rafah border checkpoint between Egypt and Gaza opened on the 21st and trucks of relief goods began to arrive, but people are not yet able to pass through. The United States is negotiating with neighboring countries to allow border crossing as foreigners also live in the Gaza Strip.
John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the White House National Security Council (NSC), said at a briefing on this day, “We support safe passage for civilians in the Gaza Strip and those trying to leave the area, and we will not support the forced relocation of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.” “He said.
It is said that U.S. President Joe Biden plans to hold a telephone conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan this afternoon to discuss related issues.
Meanwhile, criticism continues that the humanitarian aid currently being provided to the Gaza Strip is woefully inadequate.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement that day, “The level of humanitarian aid allowed to Gaza so far is completely inadequate,” and “it does not correspond to the needs of the Gaza people, which is aggravating the humanitarian tragedy.”
Relief supplies are being brought in through the Rafah checkpoint, but the UN has criticized the speed and amount of aid, calling it “new blood.”
Secretary-General Guterres also emphasized, “International humanitarian law sets clear rules that cannot be ignored and cannot be applied selectively because it is not a la carte.”
On this day, Israel carried out an airstrike on a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip to kill Hamas agents. As hundreds of casualties occurred as a result, criticism from the international community continued.
Regarding the ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, on that day, Secretary-General Guterres said, “At a time when too many Israelis and Palestinians have already lost their lives, the escalation of war is adding to the enormous suffering of civilians.” “I just tell them to do it,” he said, urging restraint.
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