The UN prevents “calamity” while Netanyahu pushes Israel to grasp the city of Gaza | News Israel-Palestine Conflict
A senior United Nations officials warned the United Nations Security Council (USC) that Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City risked “another calamity” in the Gaza Strip with deep consequences, while five other people in Gaza are said to have died from famine – bearing the overall balance sheet at 217, including 100 children.
The UN deputy secretary general for Europe, Central Asia and Miroslav Jenca Americas told an emergency weekend meeting on Sunday that if it was implemented, the plan could lead to the movement of all Gaza City civilians by October 7, 2025, affecting some 800,000 people, many of whom are already moved previously.
This “will probably trigger another calamity in Gaza, reverberating in the region and causing forced displacement, murders and forced destruction, aggravating unbearable suffering of the population,” said Jenca.
The Palestinian UN ambassador Riyad Mansour told CSNU that Israel was aimed at “the destruction of the Palestinian people by forced transfer and massacres to facilitate their annexation of our land”.
“What will force Israel to change course is our ability to transform the justified conviction into simple actions … History will judge us all,” he said.
The foreign powers, including some of the allies of Israel, criticized the plan of Israel. The United Kingdom, a close ally of Israel, who nevertheless prompted an emergency meeting on the crisis, warned that the Israeli plan risked prolonging the conflict.
“This will only promote the sufferings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. This is not a path to resolution. It is a path to more blood breaking,” British assistant ambassador James Kariuki told.
Another ardent Israeli ally in Germany said that he could not actively support the plan of Israel to extend military operations to Gaza and move the Palestinians.
“Where are these people supposed to go?” Chancellor Friedrich Merz asked in an interview with the public broadcaster Ard. “We can’t do that, we won’t do that, and I won’t do that.”
The permanent representative of the French UN Jay Dharmadhikari condemned “in the strongest possible terms”, the plan which, according to him, would have “dramatic humanitarian consequences” for civilians “living in horrible conditions”.
“Images of children who die of hunger or civilians are targeted when they were trying to find food are unbearable,” said Dharmadhikari, urging Israel to comply with international humanitarian law.
The United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Greece and Slovenia have published a joint declaration asking Israel “to urgently revers this decision and not to implement” the plan, claiming that it violates international law.
In a separate declaration, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Slovenia have warned that Israel Grassing Gaza City would be “a major obstacle to the implementation of the two -state solution, the only way to a complete, fair and lasting peace”.
Israel to “finish work” in Gaza
Despite international reactions and dissent rumors of the best Israeli military brass, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remained provocative on the seizure on Friday the largest urban center in Gaza, which was approved by the Israeli security firm on Friday.
“The calendar we put for the action is fairly quickly,” Netanyahu said at a press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday. “I don’t want to talk about the exact hours, but we are talking in terms of fairly short calendar because we want to end the war.”
He said that Israel had “no choice but to finish work and finish the defeat of Hamas”, given the group’s refusal to lay down his arms. Hamas said he would only disarm if an independent Palestinian state had been created.
Netanyahu said the soldiers had received the green light to “dismantle” what he described as two bastions of the remaining Hamas: Gaza City in the North and Al-Mawasi further south.
“It’s the best way to end war and the best way to finish it quickly,” he said. “We will do so by first allowing the civilian population to safely leave the combat areas with designated sure areas.”
While the Prime Minister stressed that these “sure areas” would receive “many foods, water and medical care”, the controversial humanitarian guardians of Gaza, supported by the United States (GHF), allegedly established aid to the hungry Palestinian population, regularly opened fire on aid, killing dozens at one time.
Asked about growing criticism of his cabinet’s decision, Netanyahu said the country was ready to fight alone. “We will win the war, with or without the support of others,” he said.
Hamas has published a statement responding to Netanyahu’s assertion that Israel did not intend to occupy Gaza but to “liberate” it from the Palestinian group.
The group said that the use of the term “liberation” was an attempt to distort the reality of the occupation “which will not cover the crime of extermination, to kill and systematic destruction for more than 22 months”.
Hamas added that it was a “desperate attempt to exempt” Israel after killing more than 61,400 Palestinians, including more than 18,000 children.
Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UN Jonathan Miller retaliated on Hamas during the CSNU session, claiming that the group “exploited” the captives and the population of Gaza to “maintain its position, benefiting from attempts to put pressure on Israel and the will of certain countries to recognize a Palestinian state”.
The United States, a permanent member of veto brandishing the veto of the CSNU, have so far protected its faithful ally from all the practical measures of the UN censorship. Netanyahu said that he had not yet spoken with American President Donald Trump since the cabinet of Israel approved the widen war plan, but intended to do so soon.
Addressing Fox News, the American vice-president said that the United States did not approve or reject the plan of Israel to grasp Gaza City and the entire Gaza Strip as a whole. “Obviously, there are a lot of drawbacks and downgrades,” said JD Vance.
“Unacceptable disaster”
The Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) said that the “unacceptable disaster” which was taking place in Gaza should be implemented when it was addressed to the United Nations Security Council via Videolink on Sunday.
Rameh Rajashingham expressed his concern about “prolonged conflict, atrocities reports and additional human tolls likely to take place following the government’s decision to extend military operations to Gaza”.
Israel has blocked everything except an aid net when entering Gaza for months and prevented UN workers from accessing and distributing rescue aid. “The UN has a plan and the systems in place to answer. We have already said it, and we are installing it again and again: let’s work,” said Rajasingham.
The government’s media office in Gaza said only 1,210 aid trucks have entered Gaza in the past 14 days. Officials said that this represents only 14% of the minimum real needs of the territory of 8,400 trucks.
Netanyahu admitted that there had been questions of “deprivation” in Gaza, but denied that Israel has a “famine policy”. Human Rights Watch, among other international organizations, has repeatedly called the use by Israel of civilians from civilians as a “war crime”.
Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children International, the director of the International for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, told Al Jazeera that his team on the ground saw an “exponential increase” in the number of cases of malnutrition, with effects that can “extend to generations”.
“It is not an event. This is not the absence of two or three meals. It is an accumulation of months [of deprivation]”He said.” We can help alleviate the suffering of children in Gaza, but we cannot do so if the government of Israel continues to impose all its limits. »»
