Scenes from southern Gaza of thousands of people rushing a US-backed group’s aid distribution site are “heartbreaking,” UN chief Antonio Guterres’s spokesman says, insisting on an “operationally sound plan.”
“We have been watching the video coming out of Gaza around one of the distribution points set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. And frankly, these videos, these images, are heartbreaking to say the least,” spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, says.
“As the Secretary-General noted last week, we and our partners have a detailed, principled, operationally sound plan supported by Member States to get aid to the desperate population,” he adds.
He notes that Israel is still allowing the UN to deliver some aid, but with lots of obstacles.
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