A top United Nations official warned last Friday of deteriorating humanitarian conditions across Gaza and reiterated calls for Israel to immediately halt its bombardment to allow aid to get in.
A week after the United Nations Security Council passed a weakened resolution seeking to hasten aid to Gaza, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari said “the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate.”
Last week’s heavily negotiated and long-delayed resolution called for immediately speeding aid deliveries to civilians in Gaza, but an appeal for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas was taken out.
Khiari said the U.N. will report next week on the implementation of an earlier Security Council resolution, from Nov. 15, that called for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses” in the fighting.