Negotiations at the United Nations
On Thursday, the tough negotiations must continue in the United Nations (UN) Security Council, which since the beginning of the week has postponed a vote on a resolution that would speed up the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, but which faces a new American veto if too strong terms are used.
This veto was denounced by Hamas on Thursday. “The Biden administration is killing our people twice, once with its bombs, once by depriving them of food and medicine,” the Palestinian movement said in a statement.
United Nations services continue to warn of the serious humanitarian crisis rocking Gaza. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), half of the population there suffers from extreme or severe hunger and 90% regularly go without food for an entire day.
The war has caused immense destruction in the Gaza Strip, with most hospitals out of service and 1.9 million people, or 85% of the population, having fled their homes, according to the United Nations. “The attack by Israeli occupation forces on the health system in Gaza is taking the most sadistic forms,” said Francesca Albanese, the United Nations rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Hospitals and medical staff are sacred,” she added, denouncing a “senseless war against the people of Gaza.”