GAZA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement called on the newly appointed UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction, Sigrid Kaag, to “move quickly and ensure the entry of the necessary humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who are subjected to a barbaric war of genocide that left more than 85% of the people displaced.”
The Movement further called on the UN coordinator to “ensure the arrival of relief and medical aid supplies and other necessary needs to all areas of the Gaza Strip and not to comply with the Israeli threats, which seek to limit the distribution of the aid supplies to specific areas.”
Hamas also stressed “the need to ensure the permanent opening of the Rafah crossing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and the travel of the wounded and sick people to receive treatment abroad.”
Earlier, Hamas called on the United Nations to stop the crime of forced displacement against the people of the Gaza Strip.
The Movement “demanded the United Nations and UNRWA to live up to their legal responsibilities towards stopping the crime of forced displacement that the criminal occupation is trying to push against our people in the Gaza Strip under bombardment and forcing them to head towards other areas, which constitutes a brutal and complex war crime.”
Last Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands as Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza.
The appointment was pursuant to the UN Security Council Resolution 2720 (2023) that was adopted last Friday with 13 states voting for it while the United States and Russia abstaining from voting after days of marathon talks.
