{"id":38536,"date":"2024-04-06T03:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38536"},"modified":"2024-04-06T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T04:00:47","slug":"israel-has-brought-relentless-death-and-destruction-to-gaza-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38536","title":{"rendered":"Israel has brought \u2018relentless death and destruction\u2019 to Gaza: UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza has brought \u201crelentless death and destruction\u201d to Palestinians in the strip, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech marking six months since Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2024\/4\/5\/israels-war-on-gaza-live-biden-presses-israel-for-immediate-ceasefire\">war on Gaza<\/a> began, the UN chief said that \u201cnothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLives are shattered. Respect for international humanitarian law is in tatters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring my visit to the Rafah crossing 10 days ago, I met veteran humanitarians who told me categorically that the crisis and suffering in Gaza is unlike any they have ever seen,\u201d Guterres said, adding that long lines of trucks with aid continued to face \u201cobstacle after obstacle\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the gates to aid are closed, the doors to starvation are opened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore than half the population \u2013 over a million people \u2013 are facing catastrophic hunger. Children in Gaza today are dying for lack of food and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is incomprehensible, and entirely avoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began on October 7, more than 33,000 people have been killed, according to health authorities. Hundreds of thousands have also been displaced and aid organisations warn that the strip is on the brink of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/28\/icj-orders-israel-to-take-action-to-address-famine-in-gaza\">famine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza has brought \u201crelentless death and destruction\u201d to Palestinians in the strip, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. In a speech marking six months since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began, the UN chief said that \u201cnothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.\u201d \u201cLives are shattered. Respect for international humanitarian law is in tatters,\u201d he added. \u201cDuring my visit to the Rafah crossing 10 days ago, I met veteran humanitarians who told me categorically that the crisis and suffering in Gaza is unlike any they have ever seen,\u201d Guterres said, adding&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38536","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\/38536","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=38536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38538,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536\/revisions\/38538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}