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The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination today, Tuesday, rejected the Israeli plan to close the existing aid system in the Gaza Strip. At a time when the Palestine envoy to the United Nations appealed to the world to “move” in light of the calls of Israeli officials to bomb aid stores in the sector.
“We do not accept any proposal or plan that does not amount to the level of basic humanitarian principles represented in neutrality, integrity and independence in delivering aid,” said the office spokesman Yenk Lerke in Geneva.
Lairek added that Israel’s plan “is intended to increase control and restrict supplies, which is the opposite of what is required.”
Palestinian invitation
On the same level, the Palestine envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on Tuesday the world to move under the calls of Israeli officials to bomb food and aid stores in Gaza.
This came in 3 identical messages sent to the United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres, the President of the Security Council for this month (Greece), and the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Felmona Yang, regarding the continuation of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, according to the official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).
“The world cannot stand idly by, while Israeli officials invite without shame to bomb food and aid stores in Gaza to prevent civilians from reaching even the remaining small supplies, which reveals the intentions of starving and depriving the Palestinian people to death,” Mansour said.
He stressed the importance of “the world does not stand idly by, while Israel targets humanitarian workers, and increases its repression of the United Nations and Palestinian and Israeli humanitarian organizations, as well as other international organizations.”
Mansour pointed out that Israel bombed in early May this May a ship belonging to the “Freedom Fleet Alliance” in the waters of Malta, which was carrying food and other humanitarian aid to save lives, which offered the lives of 16 human workers and human rights activists at risk.
He also called for all efforts to pressure Israel to respect international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law, in addition to doing everything necessary to protect the Palestinian civilian population and ensure that they obtain supplies and aid that guarantees their survival.
Mansour also stressed the importance of holding accountable Israeli officials, led by their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and stopping the crazy attack on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, noting that it increased civil losses, destruction and displacement on a daily basis at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces and terrorist settlers.
He called for the necessity of condemning all Israeli criminal plans and measures against the Palestinian people, and the need to stop them using all the legitimate diplomatic, political, legal and economic tools available to the international community, including the imposition of an immediate ban on the supply of weapons to Israel.
In a new incitement to commit more mass crimes against civilians, Israeli Heritage Minister Amihai Eliao, in an interview broadcast by the Hebrew Channel Seven yesterday evening, called for the imposition of famine on the Palestinians in Gaza and targeting food stores, in an attempt to push the residents to forced migration under pressure and hunger.
