{"id":35631,"date":"2023-10-18T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35631"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:36:41","slug":"un-chief-guterres-condemns-collective-punishment-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35631","title":{"rendered":"UN chief Guterres condemns \u2018collective punishment\u2019 of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an \u201cimmediate humanitarian ceasefire\u201d in the Israel-Gaza war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in Beijing just hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/what-do-we-know-about-the-strike-on-the-hospital-in-gaza\">bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital<\/a> in Gaza, Guterres said that Hamas \u201cattacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a forum to mark 10 years of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the UN chief reiterated what he called \u201ctwo urgent humanitarian appeals\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called on Hamas to \u201c[immediately] and [unconditionally] release\u201d those it is holding captive and Israel \u201cto immediately allow unrestricted access of humanitarian aid\u201d to Gaza. The humanitarian ceasefire was needed for both of these appeals to be met, Guterres added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToo many lives and the fate of the entire region hang in the balance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guterres\u2019s speech came after he released a statement condemning the attack on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/what-do-we-know-about-the-strike-on-the-hospital-in-gaza\">hospital<\/a> in Gaza, in some of the strongest language he has yet used to describe the violence over the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palestinian health authorities say at least 500 people were killed in the attack, which has been widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/17\/world-reacts-as-gaza-officials-say-500-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-hospital\">condemned by world leaders<\/a> and human rights groups. Israel has denied responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera News: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an \u201cimmediate humanitarian ceasefire\u201d in the Israel-Gaza war. Speaking in Beijing just hours after the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, Guterres said that Hamas \u201cattacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people\u201d. Speaking at a forum to mark 10 years of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the UN chief reiterated what he called \u201ctwo urgent humanitarian appeals\u201d. He called on Hamas to \u201c[immediately] and [unconditionally] release\u201d those it is holding captive and Israel \u201cto immediately allow unrestricted access of humanitarian aid\u201d to Gaza&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35633,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions\/35633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}