MORE HUMANITARIAN AID BUT NO CEASE FIRE
The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution this Friday demanding an increase in humanitarian aid in Gaza, but without demanding a cessation of hostilities. Thirteen countries approved the text, while the United States and Russia abstained.
It is clear that increasing aid to the Palestinian population, who lack water, food and medicine, is a positive thing. It remains to be seen whether Israel will allow aid to pass through or make it difficult as it has done on other occasions.
But the most unacceptable thing is that the resolution leaves Israel the power to continue bombing Gaza, from north to south, causing new deaths and ruins in the enclave. More than 20,000 civilians have already died, including more than 8,000 children.
Antonio Guterres has commented on the scope of this resolution, pointing out that Israel will continue the collective punishment of the population. The Jewish state has already forced the displacement of nearly two million civilians, which represents almost the entire civilian population.
Netanyahu, therefore, continues to have his hands free to launch hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs that cause craters 15 meters in diameter and cause hundreds of deaths and enormous ruins. These American-made bombs had not been used since the years of the Viet-Nam War.
In the West Bank this year, Christian Christmas will not be celebrated, in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are paying so much blood for the indiscriminate bombings of the Palestinian enclave.
Israel maintains that its goal is to eliminate the armed group Hamas. But Hamas are not just combatants, but an idea firmly anchored within the Palestinian population, which has been fighting for its independent nation state for more than 75 years.
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