NEW YORK, (PIC)
The United Nations said on Wednesday that obstacles to distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza continue, but contrary to allegations in some reports, the UN has not withdrawn from the Strip.
The UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a daily press briefing that the United Nations is attempting to distribute aid amidst great risks.
Dujarric noted that no progress has been made so far regarding the improvements they requested from Israel.
In response to circulating news that the United Nations will suspend the distribution of aid if Israel does not respond to its demands, Dujarric said: “We are not pulling out of Gaza.”
Regarding the distribution of aid from the US floating pier, Dujarric said that the United Nations is still reviewing the security situation and has yet to distribute aid because the necessary conditions are still unmet.
He explained that the United Nations is trying to distribute aid in a narrow environment, pointing out that the United Nations demands are basically very simple.
Dujarric stated that they are not working under the protection of the Israeli army, stressing that they have tried different methods of distributing aid.
“The only way to succeed is a ceasefire, is our ability to have full and unimpeded humanitarian access to see the immediate release of all the hostages”, he underlined.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza, resulting in around 124,000 Palestinians killed or injured, most of them children and women, and over 10,000 missing amidst widespread destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children.
Israel continues its genocide war despite two UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice to end the Rafah invasion, take measures to prevent genocide, and improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
