PNN – The UN Secretary-General stated that the current situation in Gaza has gone beyond a humanitarian crisis and has reached a major moral crisis that challenges the global conscience, adding that the UN is raising its voice, but words cannot feed the hungry children of Gaza.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the events taking place in Gaza as not only a humanitarian crisis, but also a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience, saying that words cannot feed the hungry children of Gaza.
The UN Secretary-General said in a video address to the Amnesty International World Assembly that nothing can justify the explosions, death and destruction in Gaza since the start of the war. The scale and scope of these events surpass anything we have witnessed recently, and I cannot begin to explain the level of indifference and passivity we see from many in the international community; the lack of compassion, the lack of truth, and the lack of humanity.
Guterres also referred to the suffering of UN staff in Gaza, saying: Many of them are so numb and empty that they say they have no sense of death or life. Children in Gaza talk about wishing they could go to heaven because they believe that at least there is food there.
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The senior UN official emphasized: What is happening in Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis; it is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience. Therefore, I call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of all prisoners, and immediate and unhindered access to humanitarian aid in Gaza, and I emphasize that immediate, tangible, and irreversible steps must be taken towards a government solution.
Antonio Guterres stressed that the United Nations is ready to take full advantage of a possible ceasefire to significantly expand its humanitarian operations throughout the Gaza Strip, as it has done during previous ceasefires.
The International Rescue Committee, for its part, stated that we are horrified to hear reports of children and infants dying of starvation in Gaza. What we are witnessing in Gaza is a man-made hunger crisis resulting from the severe restrictions and all-out blockade of the strip.
The committee called for the entry of food, water and fuel for the more than 2 million people in the Gaza Strip who are in dire need of assistance.