He United Nations Secretary General, António Guterresha Avoid using the word “genocide” In relation to Gaza’s assault by Israel but has described as “horrific” he “Mass murder of civilians, famine and blocking humanitarian aid“This Tuesday at the press conference prior to the next UN General Assembly, which starts on September 23 in a period of uncertainty not only for the wars of Gaza and Ukraine, but for the repeated attacks of the US President Donald Trump against the organization.
To justify your negative to use the word “genocide”, Guterres has said that “It is not legal attribution of the United Nations Secretary of the determination of whether it is a genocidebut of the International Court of Justice. “The problem is the situation in Gaza, Not a semantic matter“but” regardless of the word that is used, it is moral, political and legally intolerable“, He has defended himself at repeated questions of journalists about it.
“I do not remember any other conflict as general secretary in which the aid distribution has been completely stopped“, has declared Guterres, who has described as”systematic distraction“How the Israel government has justified the mass assault on the strip.” The Palestinian people are suffering a Horrous situation“And” they are in imminent risk of losing their lives“He added.
The UN Rapporteur over the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, said Monday that the Palestinians killed in the Gaza War are many more than the estimated 65,000 and that the real number can be more than ten times higher.
Guterres also said he would be willing to meet with Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and US president, Donald Trump, at the UN next week.
“The solution of two states It is the only possible option for peace in the region “, while” a single Israeli state that submits the Palestinian people “would lead to the continuous and extension of the conflict throughout the Middle East.
UN General Assembly in New York / Europa Press/Lev Radin
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