2023-12-19 19:07:30
Before a new vote in the UN Security Council on a resolution on the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas, the UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland criticized Israel’s recent measures to enable humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip as “insufficient”.
The transport of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip continues to face “almost insurmountable challenges in view of the humanitarian catastrophe” in the Palestinian territory.
The “limited measures” taken by Israel, including imports of fuel, food and gas for cooking and the opening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, while “positive, are far from sufficient for what is needed,” Wennesland told the UN today -Security Council in New York.
“Much more surgical intervention” required
Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on Israel to take a “much more surgical, clinical and targeted approach” in its crackdown on the radical Islamic group Hamas. In Rome, following talks with his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio, Cameron said Britain was calling on Israel to “recognize the need to minimize civilian casualties.”
At the same time, Cameron said in response to international calls for a ceasefire that a cessation of fighting would be “not sustainable if you stop permanently and Hamas retains control of even part of the Gaza Strip.”
One cannot expect a two-state solution from Israel “if Hamas controls part of what would be Palestine,” said the British foreign minister. A sustainable solution means “that Hamas is no longer a threat to Israel, that it is no longer able to do what it did on October 7th.”
100 more foreigners leave Gaza Strip
Meanwhile, foreigners and Palestinians with second passports continued to leave the Gaza Strip. Today around 100 of them left the sealed-off coastal area for Egypt. Many of them are met at the border by representatives of their respective embassies, who then organize their onward journey via Cairo Airport.
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