UN Deputy Secretary General: 600,000 children live in Rafah
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the closure of the Rafah crossing would result in more deaths and the forced migration of more residents. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, “Martin Griffiths”, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian said that the Israeli army’s order to evacuate Rafah and the ground invasion in this city will lead to the death of more residents and forced migration.
According to Al Jazeera, he said that the closure of the Rafah crossing prevented the entry of fuel and food and medical supplies and disrupting the entry of aid and UN staff into Gaza.
Griffiths added: Our teams are still in Rafah, where more than one million people, including 600,000 children, are staying. , are present.
He also wrote on his personal page on X social network: “The conflict in Gaza is at another critical juncture. The decisions that are made today and their consequences in human suffering will be remembered in the generation that comes from us; We should be ready to blame them”. He said in an interview in February last year that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a political movement. His words were accompanied by severe attacks by Tel Aviv.
On the other hand, the occupation army’s ground attack on Rafah and the entry of Israeli tanks into the Rafah crossing have been met with the reaction of many countries; In the meantime, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University strongly condemned the invasion of the tanks of the occupying army on the Rafah crossing in a statement. Al-Azhar’s statement stated that this attack is an all-out war crime.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |