US EditionUN official urges Israel to lift aid blockade of Gaza and calls it 'cruel collective punishment'
- On Thursday, May 1, 2025, United Nations emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher urged Israel to lift its blockade of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
- The call followed Israel’s termination of a ceasefire on March 18, 2025, after which it blocked all aid trucks, worsening a nearly 19-month war with severe civilian hardship.
- Gaza faces critical shortages of food, water, and medicine, with over 3,000 aid trucks stalled outside, while continuous Israeli strikes cause civilian casualties and strain collapsing medical services.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry reported a total death toll exceeding 52,400 since October 2023, with over half women and children, including 18 deaths on May 1, 2025.
- The UN stated that blocking aid amounts to cruel collective punishment, insisting that humanitarian assistance and civilian lives saved should never become bargaining chips in the conflict.
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Israel’s Blocking of Aid to Gaza Is ‘Cruel Collective Punishment,’ Says UN Relief Chief - Quds News Network
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The United Nations has urged Israel to lift its blockade on humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, describing it as a “cruel collective punishment” as the blockade enters its third month. “International law is unequivocal: as the occupying power, Israel must allow humanitarian support in. Aid, and the civilian lives it saves, should never be a bargaining chip,” Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitaria…
UN Humanitarian Chief Urges Israel to Lift “Brutal Blockade” on Gaza - teleSUR English
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has issued an urgent call for Israel to lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has now entered its second month. Fletcher warned that the policy is causing severe humanitarian consequences and constitutes a violation of international law. “To the Israeli authorities, and to those who may still reason with them, we say once again: lift this brutal blockade. Let humanitarian workers save lives,” s…
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