Follow-up – Al-Rashid
Today, Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed “the humanitarian and legal responsibility that the Security Council bears to pressure Israel to comply with the provisions of international law and remove the obstacles it places in the process of bringing aid into Gaza.”
During his meeting with Sigrid Kach, the United Nations Senior Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, Shukri stressed “the inevitability of achieving an immediate ceasefire in the Strip and implementing the truce before the month of Ramadan so that the flow of humanitarian aid and relief materials can be increased in quantities sufficient for the needs of the residents of the Strip.”
Shukry noted, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s statement, “the humanitarian risks resulting from systematic attempts to target the work of UNRWA, and the suspension of funding to the agency by some donors in the midst of this humanitarian crisis.” He stressed the need to abandon this path and not to push the agency into narrow political accommodations, and the importance of Full resumption of the agency’s funding to enable it to perform its indispensable tasks in providing vital services to the Palestinians in accordance with its UN mandate.
For her part, the UN official expressed her appreciation for the important and pivotal role that Egypt has played since the beginning of the crisis to push the implementation of the truce and reduce the crisis in the Gaza Strip, as well as providing and facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including the existing cooperation between the Egyptian Red Crescent and international relief agencies. , stressing its keenness to continue consultation and coordination with the Egyptian side to ensure the implementation of its tasks related to increasing the implementation of aid to the sector.
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, for more than 4 months, has led to the death of more than 30,000 Palestinians, most of whom are children and women, according to the local Ministry of Health in the besieged Strip.
