United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of six months of war in Gaza are on the verge of causing a “complete loss of trust in global standards and norms”. and that respect for international humanitarian law is now “in jeopardy”.
The conflict that The outbreak occurred on October 7th with the attack on Israel by Palestinian militiasAccording to the enclave’s authorities, this was responded to with an Israeli military operation in Gaza that has left more than 33,000 Palestinians dead.
“Catastrophic” famine and unprecedented suffering
Guterres first dedicated his memorial speech to the lawsuit Lack of humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people, which he described as “collective punishment,” and later expressed concern about Israel’s possible use of artificial intelligence systems to select its targets.
“Experienced humanitarian workers conveyed this to me in no uncertain terms The crisis and suffering in Gaza is unlike anything they have ever experienced.. Long lines of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid continue to encounter one obstacle after another. “When the doors to help are closed, the doors to hunger are opened,” complained Guterres.
The UN Secretary General has complained that more than half of Gaza’s population (more than a million people) are facing a threat catastrophic famine and that children in Gaza are dying due to lack of food and water. “This is incomprehensible and completely avoidable. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” Guterres said.
Israel’s use of AI
Guterres has also expressed his “deep concern” about Israel’s use of artificial intelligence. “I have been warning about the dangers for many years Weaponize AI because it reduces the essential role of the human factor. “No life or death decision that could impact entire families should be left to the cold calculations of algorithms,” he added.
The leader thought for six months “deadliest of all conflicts”due to the “speed, scale and inhumane savagery” that left traces of deaths of “civilians, humanitarian workers, aid workers, journalists or health workers”.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations took a moment to remind those close to him 196 humanitarian workers, including more than 175 members of UN organizations, killed in Israeli bombingsin particular, the seven members of the World Central Kitchen NGO who were killed on Monday in an Israeli attack that the army itself considered a “serious miscalculation.”
Guterres also spoke of an “information war” surrounding the Gaza conflict; one that “obfuscates the facts and shifts blame” because “the barriers to international journalists entering Gaza allow disinformation and false narratives to flourish.”
In short, the Secretary General of the United Nations calls for this immediately impose a systematic change in Israeli military proceduresl In order to prevent “mistakes” such as those committed against the population of the WCK from being “repeated again and again” and with regard to access to humanitarian aid, the current situation requires “a quantum leap” and a “paradigm” “shift” in the way aid is delivered to Gaza.
“Last week the UN Security Council called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages, the protection of civilians, etc the unhindered provision of humanitarian aid“, recalled the UN Secretary General. “All these demands must be put into action because failure would be unforgivable,” he added.
Finally, Guterres described a disastrous future for the residents of the Gaza Strip, for the residents of the Middle East region and finally for the international community, without significantly changing the development of events
“Six months later, we are all on the brink: one Mass starvation; the regional conflagration; a complete loss of trust in global standards and norms. “It is time to step back, silence the guns, ease the terrible suffering and stop a possible famine before it is too late,” he concluded.