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25-01-2024
UNITED NATIONS: UN’s Antonio Guterres tells UN Security Council: “Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
At least 14 people were killed in Israeli attacks on two residential homes in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
Medical sources have told media that “at least 40” Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis over the day while Israeli bombings are preventing the recovery of “dozens” more bodies.
Israel’s military has announced its deadliest single day for troops since the Gaza ground invasion began, with 24 Israeli soldiers killed.
At least 25,490 people have been killed and 63,000 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack stands at 1,139.
Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who amassed a huge social media following for his reports on the war in Gaza, has arrived in Qatar after leaving the war-torn enclave.
“I left Gaza with a broken heart and eyes filled with tears,” Azaiza said in a post on X, announcing he had reached Qatar.
“No time to rest. Keep calling for a ceasefire!,” he added.
The 24-year-old Palestinian captured the attention of millions globally as he filmed himself in a press vest and helmet documenting conditions on the ground and the victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has shared clips from his speech to the UN Security Council in which he called out Israel’s “collective punishment” of Palestinians and branded as “unacceptable” refusals to accept a two-state solution for Palestine.
The UN chief’s comment follows after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently reiterated his long and staunch opposition to an independent state for Palestinians alongside an Israeli state.
“The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable,” Guterres said.
“The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognized by all,” he said.
David Cameron will raise “concerns over the high number of civilian casualties” in Gaza and call for a significant increase in the “flow of life-saving aid” into the besieged Palestinian enclave when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Foreign Office statement. (Int’l News Desk)
