{"id":31163,"date":"2023-12-24T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=31163"},"modified":"2023-12-25T12:56:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T12:56:39","slug":"adoption-of-un-resolution-to-expedite-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza-an-important-but-insufficient-step-amnesty-international-sg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/31163","title":{"rendered":"Adoption of UN resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza an important but insufficient step: Amnesty International SG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said that United Nations Security Council resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza is much-needed but it remains woefully insufficient in the face of ongoing carnage and extensive destruction wrought by the Israeli government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement came in response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a compromise resolution calling for \u201curgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered and expanded humanitarian access\u201d to Gaza and creating \u201cthe conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a much-needed resolution \u2013 all efforts to address the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza must be welcomed, but it remains woefully insufficient in the face of the ongoing carnage and extensive destruction wrought by the government of Israel\u2019s attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip.\u201d \u201cNothing short of an immediate ceasefire is enough to alleviate the mass civilian suffering we are witnessing, AI\u2019s secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote on the resolution \u2013 which was watered down significantly from earlier versions to avoid a US veto fails to call for an immediate halt in the fighting, instead including a call to \u2018create conditions\u2019 for a cessation of hostilities, AI\u2019s secretary said in statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGiven the staggering death toll \u2013 with more than 20,000 killed in over two months, and the horrifying scale of destruction and devastation in Gaza this is simply unacceptable.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is disgraceful that the US was able to stall and use the threat of its veto power to force the UN Security Council to weaken a much-needed call for an immediate end to attacks by all parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said that United Nations Security Council resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza is much-needed but it remains woefully insufficient in the face of ongoing carnage and extensive destruction wrought by the Israeli government. The statement came in response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31169,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions\/31169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}