Undeterred by UN resolution, Israel keeps pounding Gaza
What we’re seeing on the ground right now is the Israeli military completely ignoring the UN Security Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire.
Israeli forces have continued to pound the Gaza Strip, killing people in Rafah city – in the central area and in the north.
They have also continued to operate aggressively around public facilities, mainly health facilities. Most, if not all, of those facilities in the north have been pushed completely out of service. They’ve been transformed from places of healing into graveyards.
Israeli military in defiance of UN resolution
It’s been nearly 24 hours since the UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire during Ramadan passed and what we’re seeing on the ground is the complete opposite of what the resolution is demanding.
There seems to be a surge in attacks on Rafah city, along with the ongoing threats to expand the military operation – the ground invasion – in Rafah where nearly 1.5 million displaced Palestinians have been sheltering.
There’s also an obstruction of the flow of humanitarian aid to the northern part of Gaza City, and only a trickle has been allowed into the southern and central part that is nowhere near enough to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe.
The resolution allows for two weeks, which is not enough to respond to the catastrophe created by Israel’s war, as well as not enough to coordinate and secure the delivery of aid to the northern part of Gaza City.
