Antonio Guterres: “Nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinians by Israel”

“Nothing justifies the collective punishment” imposed by Israel on the population of the Gaza Strip, who are suffering “unimaginable” suffering, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complained yesterday, Monday, during an interview with Agence France-Presse. “The level of suffering in Gaza is unimaginable, the level of death and destruction is beyond comparison since I became Secretary-General” of the international body, said Mr Guterres, in office since 2017. “Obviously, we condemn all acts of terrorism of Hamas, as well as the kidnapping of hostages”, but, in any case, “the truth is that nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian population, and we see this in a dramatic way in Gaza”, he underlined, referring to the deaths, the disasters, to the famine and disease faced by the inhabitants of the coastal enclave under siege. On October 7, 2023, members of the military arm of Hamas launched a raid of unprecedented severity from the Gaza Strip into the southern part of the Israeli territory, against […]
Source: News Beast

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