GENEVA (PIC)– Louise Arbor the UN high commissioner for human rights expressed her deep concern on Friday about the Israeli decision to consider the Hamas-run Gaza Strip a “hostile entity” warning that reducing the supply of fuel and energy to the Strip will create catastrophic conditions for the Gaza inhabitants whose number amounts to more than one million and a half.
In an official statement issued in Geneva Arbor highlighted that Israel must comply with its obligations stipulated in the international and human rights laws which prohibits the use of inappropriate means or resorting to the policy of mass punishment.
In the same context Angelo Gnaedinger the director-general of the Red Cross described on Friday in a statement after an inspection tour in Gaza the status quo in the Gaza Strip as “very critical” after three months of almost total isolation.
The Red Cross had pointed out in an official statement that the agricultural sector in Gaza is held to be the most affected economic sector by the closures which crippled the export of crops.
The statement also mentioned the deteriorating conditions of the nine hospitals in the Gaza Strip in addition to the sewage and water utilities that had been damaged by Israeli military incursions and restrictions imposed on the import and the damage caused to the electricity station.
