ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: TOTAL SIEGE: POTUS CANCELS VISIT AS UN SETS TO VOTE
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR (TOTAL SIEGE)
POTUS CANCELS VISIT AS UN SETS TO VOTE
The bombing of a hospital in Gaza City has killed hundreds
of people and escalated the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Both sides blamed the other, but horrific scenes of the
wounded ignited street protests in capitals across the region.
Israel’s aerial bombardment campaign over the Gaza Strip is
part of what it calls a total siege.
This included cutting off water, food and electricity supplies to a population
of two million people.
Israel’s military operation in Gaza, is in response to a
brutal terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7 that killed at least 1,000
people, including Americans. The Israeli government says that Hamas is still
holding at least 199 hostages kidnapped from Israel.
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Human rights groups have criticized the siege for breaking humanitarian law.
U.S. President Joe Biden had said he planned to address the
humanitarian crisis for Palestinian civilians when he visits Israel and Jordan
this week.
But the American President will no longer visit Jordan as
part of his Middle East trip this week, after a leaders summit on humanitarian
aid for Palestinians was abruptly canceled on Tuesday.
The decision was made as unrest across the region swelled, in response to the president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and Palestinian Authority president Mahmound Abbas after first visiting Israel.
“There is no use in talking now about anything except
stopping the war,” Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi said on state
television.
“I am outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the
Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, and the terrible loss of life that resulted,
Biden said in statement Tuesday.
“The United States stands unequivocally for the protection
of civilian life during conflict and we mourn the patients, medical staff and
other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy,” he added.
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The United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk condemned
the deadly attack on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza calling the strike
“totally unacceptable.”
“Words fail me. Tonight, hundreds of people were killed –
horrifically – in a massive strike at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City,
including patients, healthcare workers and families that had been seeking
refuge in and around the hospital,” Turk said in a statement.
“Hospitals are sacrosanct,
and they must be protected at all costs,” he said, adding “Those found
responsible must be held to account.”
“We don’t yet know the full scale of this carnage, but what
is clear is that the violence and killings must stop at once,” he said.
Both Hamas and Israel have placed blame for the strike on
each other.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council will vote on
Wednesday on a Brazilian-drafted resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses
in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas to allow
humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
The council is then expected to discuss - at the request of
the United Arab Emirates and Russia - a Gaza hospital blast that killed
hundreds of people on Tuesday, diplomats said.
Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour blamed Israeli forces
for the “massacre” at the hospital, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan issued a statement
accusing the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group of responsibility.
While the human loss in the Gaza continues, the world eagerly
awaits the decision of the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian
crisis in the region.
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