UN Urges Action to Prevent Genocide Amid Gaza Aid Blockade

The UN's chief for humanitarian issues urges the Security Council to act to "prevent genocide", since Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid from entering the war-torn area for over ten weeks.

» Published: May 14 2025 at 03:10

UN Urges Action to Prevent Genocide Amid Gaza Aid Blockade
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What more evidence do you require? Are you going to take decisive action to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?

Or are you going to say that we did all we could, continued Fletcher, head of the UN's humanitarian organization Ocha, before the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

International aid efforts, which among other things have been coordinated by Ocha, have constituted the only international presence on site in Gaza, he further emphasized.

They have seen and reported on the horrific development.

Fletcher, a seasoned British diplomat who took office as head of Ocha, emphasized that the UN has failed to speak out about the extent of human rights violations and the laws of war while they have been ongoing in previous wars and conflicts.

Now the ICJ (International Court of Justice in The Hague) is considering whether a genocide is taking place in Gaza. They will weigh the testimony that we have shared. But it will be too late.

470,000 Gazans are now facing the highest risk level: 5, catastrophic risk of starvation, assessed the FN-supported IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) in a new report published on Monday.

Demand that this comes to an end, he said to the Security Council.

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