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The international community, as usual, contented itself with condemning, denouncing and denouncing the new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians, targeting civilians at a time when they were trying to obtain humanitarian aid.
In Brussels, European Union foreign policy coordinator Josep Borrell said in a post on the “X” website: “I am horrified when I hear news of another massacre among civilians in Gaza who are in dire need of humanitarian aid.” These deaths are completely unacceptable. Depriving people of food aid constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Humanitarian access to Gaza must be allowed unhindered.
At the level of member states, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez, on Thursday, condemned the killing of more than 100 Palestinians during the distribution of food aid in northern Gaza by Israeli army gunfire.
Albarez said on the X platform, “The unacceptable nature of what happened in Gaza, where dozens of Palestinian civilians are dying while waiting for food, confirms the urgent need for a ceasefire.”
Internationally, the Secretary-General of the United Nations expressed alarm at the tragic human losses resulting from the conflict in Gaza, where more than 30,000 people were killed - according to reports - and more than 70,000 were injured, and an unknown number is still under the rubble.
In a statement attributed to his spokesman, Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the incident that occurred Thursday in northern Gaza, where more than a hundred people were killed and injured - according to reports - while seeking life-saving aid.
The statement said that desperate civilians in Gaza need urgent assistance, including those in the besieged north, to which the United Nations has not been able to deliver aid for more than a week.
The Secretary-General renewed his call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages. He reiterated the call to take urgent steps to ensure that vital humanitarian aid enters Gaza and throughout the Strip and reaches all those in need.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, expressed his shock at reports that hundreds of people were killed and injured during the aid transport operation in Gaza today. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini indicated that UNRWA and the United Nations were not involved in this aid distribution process. He said that today is another day of hell in Gaza, wondering: How long will this madness continue? How long will this madness continue? The Arab countries also condemned what happened, including, for example, a statement issued in Baghdad, where
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemned the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation authority against citizens who were waiting for the arrival of aid trucks at the Nabulsi roundabout near Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded.
In a statement reported by Al-Sumaria News channel this Thursday evening, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the international community to protect the Palestinian people, considering that they are suffering from a serious humanitarian crisis.
She stressed that the Israeli occupation’s resort to a policy of genocide and its insistence on continuing the killing and displacement operations is an indication of ignoring international law and the United Nations Charter, which requires a serious stance to protect the Palestinian people.