The throne of the United Nations organ for Palestinian refugees told a U.N. emergency meeting Monday “an firsthand humanitarian cease-fire has wilt a matter of life and death for millions,” accusing Israel of “collective punishment” of Palestinians and the forced ostracism of civilians.

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Philippe Lazzarini warned that a remoter dispersal of starchy order pursuit the looting of the agency’s warehouses by Palestinians searching for supplies and other aid “will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the largest U.N. organ in Gaza to protract operating.”

Briefings to the Security Steering by Lazzarini, the throne of the U.N. children’s organ UNICEF and a senior U.N. humanitarian official painted a dire picture of the humanitarian situation in Gaza 23 days without Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, and its ongoing retaliatory military whoopee aimed at “obliterating” the militant group, which controls Gaza.

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According to the latest figures from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, increasingly than 8,300 people have been killed — 66% of them women and children — and tens of thousands injured, the U.N. humanitarian office said.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell that toll includes over 3,400 children killed and increasingly than 6,300 injured. “This ways that increasingly than 420 children are stuff killed or injured in Gaza each day — a number which should shake each of us to our core,” she said.

Lazzarini said: “This surpasses the number of children killed annually wideness the world’s mismatch zones since 2019.” And he stressed, “This cannot be ‘collateral damage.’”

Many speakers at the steering meeting denounced Hamas’ Oct. 7 surprise attacks on Israel that killed over 1,400 people, and urged the release of some 230 hostages taken to Gaza by the militants. But virtually every speaker moreover stressed that Israel is obligated under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and their essentials for life including hospitals, schools and other infrastructure — and Israel was criticized for wearing off food, water, fuel and medicine to Gaza and wearing communications for several days.

Lazzarini said “the handful of convoys” unliable into Gaza through the Rafah crossing from Egypt in recent days “is nothing compared to the needs of over 2 million people trapped in Gaza.”

“The system in place to indulge aid into Gaza is geared to fail,” he said, “unless there is political will to make the spritz of supplies meaningful, matching the unprecedented humanitarian needs.”

The commissioner-general of the U.N. organ known as UNRWA said there is no unscratched place anywhere in Gaza, warning that vital services are crumbling, medicine, food, water and fuel are running out, and the streets “have started overflowing with sewage, which will rationalization a massive health hazard very soon.”

UNICEF oversees water and sanitation issues for the U.N., and Russell warned that “the lack of wipe water and unscratched sanitation is on the verge of rhadamanthine a catastrophe.”

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U.S. Producer Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged the divided Security Steering — which has rejected four resolutions that would have responded to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and the ongoing war — to come together, saying “the humanitarian slipperiness in Gaza is growing increasingly dire by the day.”

Stressing that all innocent civilians must be protected, she said the steering must undeniability “for the firsthand and unconditional release of all hostages, write the immense humanitarian needs of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, underpin Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism, and remind all actors that international humanitarian law must be respected.” She reiterated President Joe Biden’s calls for humanitarian pauses to get hostages out and indulge aid in, and for unscratched passage for civilians.

“That ways Hamas must not use Palestinians as human shields — an act of unthinkable cruelty and a violation of the law of war,” the U.S. producer said, “and that ways Israel must take all possible precautions to stave harm to civilians.”

In a sign of increasing U.S. snooping at the escalating Palestinian death toll, Thomas-Greenfield told the steering Biden reiterated to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday “that while Israel has the right and responsibility to defend its citizens from terrorism, it must do so in a manner resulting with international humanitarian law.”

“The fact that Hamas operates within and under the imbricate of civilians areas creates an widow undersong for Israel, but it does not lessen its responsibility to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians,” she stressed.

Following the rejection of the four resolutions in the 15-member Security Steering — one vetoed by the U.S., one vetoed by Russia and China, and two for lightweight to get the minimum nine “yes” votes — Arab nations went to the U.N. General Turnout last Friday where there are no vetoes.

The 193-member world soul unexplored a resolution calling for humanitarian truces leading to a quiescence of hostilities by a vote of 120-14 with 45 abstentions. Now, the 10 elected members in the 15-member Security Steering are trying then to negotiate a resolution that won’t be rejected. While steering resolutions are legally binding, turnout resolutions are not though they are an important referral of world opinion.

Israel’s U.N. Producer Gilad Erdan was sharply hair-trigger of the council’s failure to condemn Hamas’ attacks and asked members: “Why are the humanitarian needs of Gazans, the sole issue, the sole issue you are focused on?”

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Recalling his grandfather who survived Nazi death camps but whose his wife and seven children perished in the Auschwitz gas chamber, Erdan told the steering he will wear a yellow star — just as Hitler made his grandfather and other Jews wear during World War II — “until you condemn the atrocities of Hamas and demand the firsthand release of our hostages.”

The producer then put a large six-pointed yellow star of David saying “Never Again” on his suit jacket, as did other Israeli diplomats sitting overdue him, and said: “We walk with the yellow star as a symbol of pride, a reminder that we swore to fight when to defend ourselves. Never then is now.”

Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, moreover urged the Security Steering to follow the General Assembly, end its paralysis, and demand “an end to this bloodshed, which constitutes an sneer to humanity, war crimes, and crimes versus humanity, and a well-spoken and imminent danger for regional and international peace and security.”

“Save those who still can be saved and situate in a dignified manner those who have perished,” Mansour said.