Guterres’ trip to the border of Gaza and Egypt with a renewed request for a ceasefire

Farhan Haq, the spokesman of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a news conference on Friday that the Secretary-General is expected to repeat his call for a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons and “silence of weapons” especially in Gaza and Sudan.

He continued: During his stay in Egypt, the Secretary General will go to North Sinai and visit a hospital in al-Arish, as well as the place where a lot of international aid for Gaza is received and stored. He will also go to Rafah in the Egyptian sector as one of the aid arrival areas, and there he will meet and talk with UN staff in humanitarian affairs.

According to the report of Sedi al-Balad website, Guterres’ spokesperson stated: The Secretary General will also meet with some Egyptian officials during his stay in Cairo.

In this regard, Reuters news agency, referring to Guterres’ trip to the Egyptian border with Gaza, with the aim of requesting a ceasefire in the Israeli war against Gaza, which has left widespread destruction in this strip, wrote that his trip is being carried out while Despite international requests not to attack the city of Rafah, Tel Aviv is threatening to carry out a major military operation in this city located in the south of the Gaza Strip and on the border with Egypt. Meanwhile, the majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have taken shelter around Rafah.

Despite the fact that the situation in the north of the Gaza Strip is worse, but due to the continuation of the conflict, the plight of civilians throughout this strip has worsened.

According to what diplomatic sources told AFP, the vote that was supposed to take place today -Saturday- in the UN Security Council on the draft of a new resolution requesting an “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza, in an effort to avoid another failure after Russia and China’s use of their veto rights on Friday against the US draft was postponed until Monday.

These sources explained that the decision to adjourn was made to allow for further discussions on the alternative draft resolution prepared by a number of non-permanent council members.

On Friday, Russia and China used their veto in the Security Council against the US draft resolution on Gaza, which was in favor of the Zionist aggression.

Source: ISNA