RAFAH, Saturday, March 23, 2024 (WAFA) – UN chief Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of Gaza, said today that the world has seen enough of the war’s horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid.
“Palestinians in Gaza – children, women, men – remain stuck in a non-stop nightmare,” he said on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing where truckloads of aid trickle into Gaza but the population is stalked by “hunger and starvation”.
“I carry the voices of the vast majority of the world who have seen enough,” Guterres said, deploring “communities obliterated, homes demolished, entire families and generations wiped out”.
He reiterated that “nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” the United Nations secretary-general said. “A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates. The long shadow of starvation on the other,” said the UN chief, describing the situation as “a moral outrage.”
Guterres emphasized “it is more than time for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and appealed to Israel for “total, unfettered access for humanitarian goods throughout Gaza.”
