There is “no safe place to go in the Gaza Strip”, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday, as Israeli airstrikes kill 300 people in 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 18,000, as well as 49,500 wounded people.
Heavy fighting raged overnight and into Sunday focussing mainly on Khan Younis, as Israel pressed ahead with its attacks after the US blocked the latest international efforts to halt the fighting and rushed more weapons to its close ally.
Israel has faced rising international outrage and calls for a ceasefire after the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians and the displacement of nearly 85% of Gaza's 2.3 million people within the besieged territory, where UN agencies say there is no safe place to flee .
But the United States has lent vital support to the indiscriminate attack once again in recent days, by vetoing United Nations Security Council efforts to end the fighting that enjoyed widespread international support, and by pushing through an emergency sale of over $100 million worth of tank ammunition to Israel.
, The continuing Israeli assault on Gaza comes as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he regrets the Security Council's failure to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Addressing Qatar's Doha Forum, Guterres said the council was "paralysed by geostrategic divisions" that were undermining solutions to Israel's war on Gaza.
The body's "authority and credibility were severely undermined" by its delayed response to the conflict, he said two days after the US veto prevented a resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire.
"I reiterated my appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared," he told the forum.
"Regrettably, the Security Council failed to do it," he added.
"I can promise, I will not give up."
Guterres had convened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after two months of fighting that have left more than 17,700 people dead in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian enclave's health ministry.
The secretary-general deployed the rarely-used Article 99 of the United Nations Charter to bring to the council's attention "any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security".
The rule had not previously been invoked by a UN chief in decades and has been triggered due to the catastrophic humanitarian crisis gripping Gaza.
"We are facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system," Guterres told the Doha Forum.
"The situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region."
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Palestinian media outlets have reported an update on an Israeli attack at Al-Maghazi camp, located in central Gaza, following a building had been targeted.
According to local media, the Palestinian death toll has risen to 22.
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UN Security Council's authority, credibility severely undermined: UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the credibility and authority of the UN Security Council suffered significant damage over the Gaza conflict.
“The delay comes at a cost, the council's authority and credibility were severely undermined and the resolution is not being implemented,” Guterres said about the previously passed UN resolution calling for more humanitarian aid.
Speaking at the Doha Forum held in Qatar, Guterres criticized the UN Security Council’s “resounding silence” over the Gaza conflict.
“The horrific attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, followed by the relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza were met by a resounding silence from the Council. After more than one month, the Council finally passed the resolution, which I welcome,” he said, but regretted that the resolution is not being implemented.
Guterres underlined that “there is no effective protection of civilians in Gaza.”
He called for a humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip amid Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian territory.
“The number of civilian casualties in Gaza in such a short period is totally unprecedented,” he said, noting that “the health care system is collapsing.”
The UN chief expected “public order to completely break down soon and then even a worse situation could unfold, including epidemic diseases and increased pressure for mass displacement into Egypt.”
Guterres called on the UN Security Council “to press to avert the humanitarian catastrophe.”
He also reiterated his “appeal for a humanitarian cease-fire to be declared.”
“Regrettably, the Security Council failed to do it but that does not make it less necessary, so I can promise I will not give up,” he added.
“Regrettably, the Security Council failed to do it but that does not make it less necessary, so I can promise I will not give up,” he added.
The US vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution on Friday that demanded an immediate cease-fire to halt the ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip as the death toll continues to mount.
Israel resumed its military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 1 after the end of a week-long humanitarian pause with Hamas.
Nearly 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 49,229 others injured in relentless air and ground attacks on the enclave since Oct. 7 following the cross-border attack by Hamas.
The Israeli death toll in the Hamas attack stood at 1,200, according to official figures
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