{"id":1330,"date":"2024-02-13T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:29:16","slug":"un-chief-voices-hope-for-avoidance-of-israeli-all-out-offensive-against-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/un-chief-voices-hope-for-avoidance-of-israeli-all-out-offensive-against-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief voices hope for avoidance of Israeli &#8216;all-out offensive&#8217; against Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern on Tuesday about a possible Israeli assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip,\u00a0<em>Anadolu Agency<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy sincere hope is that the negotiations for the release of hostages and some form of cessation of hostilities to be successful to avoid all-out offensive over Rafah where the core of the humanitarian system is located and that would have devastating consequences,\u201d Guterres told reporters ahead of a UN Security Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His remarks came after a four-way meeting, attended by representatives from Egypt, the US, Israel and Qatar, began Tuesday in Cairo to discuss a truce in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am particularly worried with the deteriorating conditions and security for humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;If this military operation takes place, the question is: \ud835\ude6c\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude67\ud835\ude5a \ud835\ude6c\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude61 \ud835\ude69\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5a \ud835\ude58\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude6b\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude63\ud835\ude68 \ud835\ude5c\ud835\ude64? <\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely no safe place in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rafah?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rafah<\/a> anymore.&quot; <br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNLazzarini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNLazzarini<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNGeneva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNGeneva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HkdkXsE5J7\">pic.twitter.com\/HkdkXsE5J7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNGeneva\/status\/1757428354842529841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is a breakdown in public order. At the same time, we have restrictions imposed by Israel that are not improved and limit humanitarian distribution,\u201d said Guterres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conflicting mechanisms to protect humanitarian aid delivery in relation to military operations are \u201cnot effective,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guterres said he is \u201ctroubled\u201d by the number of journalists that have been killed in the conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFreedom of press is a fundamental condition for people to be able to know what\u2019s really happening everywhere in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the 7 October Hamas attack, killing at least 28,340 people and injuring 67,984 others, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory\u2019s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave\u2019s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern on Tuesday about a possible Israeli assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip,\u00a0Anadolu Agency\u00a0reports. \u201cMy sincere hope is that the negotiations for the release of hostages and some form of cessation of hostilities to be successful to avoid all-out offensive over Rafah where the core of the humanitarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}