The heads of 18 agencies, including UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization, lamented the death toll in the war between Israel and Hamas.
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The heads of key UN agencies expressed outrage over civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip in a joint statement calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas.
“For almost a month, the world has watched the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory with shock and horror at the (growing) number of lives lost and devastated,” the heads of UN agencies wrote in a rare joint statement. published this year. Sunday.
The heads of 18 agencies, including UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization, lamented the death toll in the war between Israel and Hamas.triggered on October 7 by an attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil.
According to the Hamas government, 9,770 people have been killed, half of them children, in Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
According to Israeli authorities, more than 1,400 people were killed in Israel, most of them civilians, on October 7.
In Gaza, “an entire population is besieged and attacked, denied access to the essentials for survival and bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship,” the same note states. “This is unacceptable,” they added.
The heads of UN agencies also called on Hamas to release the more than 240 hostages kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip on October 7, and urged each side to respect international law.
It is necessary to allow more food, water, medicine and fuel to enter Gaza to help the population, they asked.
“We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. 30 days have passed. “This has to end now,” they argued.
Source: Observadora
