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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - NEW YORK — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called again on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to block dozens of Palestinians from leaving the war-ravaged enclave to seek medical treatment abroad.
Guterres made the appeal on Tuesday, as more than 100 sick and injured Palestinians congregated at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
“I also call for the facilitation of rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief at scale – including through the Rafah crossing,” Guterres said during an address at UN headquarters in New York.
Briefing journalists in New York on Tuesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher welcomed the reopening but stressed that it must go beyond limited movements of people.
“Rafah must function as a real humanitarian corridor so we can have a surge in aid deliveries,” Fletcher said, underlining that current access remains insufficient to meet vast and growing needs across Gaza.
Only 16 Palestinians were allowed to cross into Egypt via Rafah on Tuesday. A day earlier, only five people were permitted to leave, while 12 were allowed back into Gaza.
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The number is far below the 50 Palestinians who Israeli officials said would be allowed to travel in each direction via the crossing.
“There is no explanation as to why crossings are being delayed at Rafah,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said from Khan Younis. “The process is taking an extremely long time.”
She added that Palestinians have been forced to leave all their belongings when passing through the crossing, which until Monday had been mostly closed for nearly two years during Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
“There are about 20,000 people waiting [in Gaza] for urgent medical attention abroad,” Khoudary said.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian near Khan Younis, despite a purported “ceasefire” deal that entered into force in October.
Gaza’s Nasser Hospital said the man was shot in an area away from where the Israeli military has seized total control.
His death brings the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the start of the “ceasefire” in mid-October to 529, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. — Agencies
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