António Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, affirmed that the death of Yahya Sinwar could be a good reason to achieve the ceasefire that he has insistently requested.
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UN Secretary General António Guterres stated this Friday that the death of Yahya Sinwar should “lead to an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza.”
Through his deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, Guterres clarified that “he does not comment on news of this nature”after being repeatedly questioned about his assessment of the murder of Sinwar, leader of Hamas and considered the intellectual author of the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, the most serious in the territory of the Israeli State.
Guterres also said that This death could be a good reason to achieve the ceasefire that has been insistently requested.
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The spokesperson recalled that Tor Wennesland, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and, as such, its main representative on the ground, also reiterated that the death of Yahya Sinwar endangers The Gaza war “at a critical moment.”
“We have to seize the moment,” Wennesland said.quoted by the spokesperson, “to silence the weapons and free the hostages”, at a time when around 100 people are still trapped in Gaza, without knowing if they are alive or dead, and so that “the parties can dialogue and reach to an agreement.” “.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the raid of armed militiamen, killing more than 1,140 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to one count. . from AFP based on official Israeli figures.
According to Israeli authorities, some 240 people were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Of them, about a hundred were freed at the end of November, during a truce in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and 132 hostages remain detained in Palestinian territory, of whom 28 are believed to have died.
In response to the attack, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a Total siege of the territory with water, fuel and electricity supply cuts.
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip killed more than 42,000 people, including paramilitaries and civilians, in more than a year.
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Source: Observadora
