Deputy Secretary General Miroslav Jenča informed a Security advice Meeting Tuesday called by Israel to discuss the fate of hostages that will always be held in the enclave ravaged by war.

This comes after Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have published images and videos of two emaciated hostages, Evaytar David and Rom Braslavsky, aroused indignation and condemnation.

“An affront to humanity itself”

“” Evaytar’s scenes being apparently forced to dig his own grave are appalling“He said.

“These images and their own stories of their treatment have all horrified us. They are an affront to humanity itself. “”

Mr. Jenča recognized the presence of Mr. David’s brother, Ilay, who participated in the meeting by videoconference, claiming that the UN recognizes “the pain and the deep difficulties endured by families and relatives of those who remain in captivity”.

He recalled that this week the Jewish community commemorated Tisha b’avA day of mourning and memory of the tragedies lasted throughout its history.

“I pay tribute to your courage and determination, and I share your dearest wish: for your brother, and all the hostages held in Gaza, to be immediately released and unconditionally,” he said.

A war crime

Currently, 50 hostages continue to be held by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in horrible conditions and 28 are considered to be deceased, while the released hostages “have relayed painful stories of deprivation, ill -treatment and abuse”.

Since the start of the conflict, Hamas and other armed groups have circulated dozens of hostage videos, including statements made under stress and while suffering clearly, including the most recent images of the two men.

“International law is clear,” said Jenča. “” The hostage -taking is prohibited – it is a war crime. “”

He stressed that those deprived of their freedom were to be treated humanly and with dignity and authorized to be visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

“They should never be subject to ill-treatment, abuse or humiliation, because they would also constitute violations of the relevant rules of international law,” he added, before reiterating the UN Secretary General António GuterresCall on Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.

“Unbearable” Gaza situation

In the meantime, ” The situation in Gaza is horrible – it’s unbearable“, He continued, noting that” the Palestinians are subject to sordid and inhuman conditions on a daily basis. »»

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the conflict, according to local health authorities.

“” Since the end of May, more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed and more than 8,100 injured while trying to access food suppliesIncluding near militarized aid distribution sites, ”said Jenča.

“The dead and injuries continue to go up, day after day, endless for suffering.”

This happens then that Israel continues to severely restrict humanitarian assistance entering Gaza, while the aid which is authorized to enter “is largely inadequate”.

“Hunger is everywhere”

He told the council that “hunger is everywhere in Gaza, visible on the faces of children and in the despair of parents who risk their lives to access the most basic supplies.”

Here, he echoes the conviction by the secretary general of the violence in progress in Gaza, including the shooting, the murder and the injury of the people trying to take food.

“International law is clear. Civilians must be respected, protected and never targeted or deliberately deprived of food or access to another rescue aid-this is a war crime, “he said.

“Israel must immediately allow and facilitate the rapid and unhindered passage of sufficient quantities of humanitarian relief for civilians in need, to avoid other suffering and loss of life.”

A “deeply alarming” potential military expansion

Jenča also discussed the latest reports concerning the possible decision of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend military operations throughout the Gaza Strip.

If this is true, they are “deeply alarming,” he said, as “This would risk the catastrophic consequences for millions of Palestinians and could further endanger the life of the remaining hostages in Gaza. “”

He turned to international law again, which is clear that Gaza is and must remain an integral part of a future Palestinian state.

He cited the advisory opinion of July 2024 by the International Court of Justice (Icj) who declared that Israel was forced to immediately stop all the new settlement activities, evacuate all the colonists of the occupied Palestinian territory and put an end to its illegal presence as quickly as possible.

No military solution

Mr. Jenča concluded his briefing by highlighting the position of the UN according to which the only way to end violence and humanitarian disaster in Gaza is by a complete and permanent ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and allowing the help of entering a large scale and without obstruction.

Civilians must also be guaranteed for sure and unhappy access to assistance.

He stressed that there is no military solution to the conflict in Gaza or the wider Israel-Palestine conflict.

“We must establish political and security frameworks that can relieve the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, start recovery and early reconstruction, respond to the legitimate security concerns of Israelis and Palestinians and ensure the end of the Illegal occupation and occupation of Israel and Get a lasting two -state solution“He said.

This would mean “Israel and a fully, democratic, viable, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, of which Gaza is an integral part – living side by side in peace and security within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the lines before 1967, with Jerusalem as the capital of the two states.”

It is a dark step for Sudan, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and the intensification of violence, milestones like this have become the dark standard.

“” It is not hypothetical. It’s an imminent disaster“Said Sheldon Yett, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef)) representative in Sudan.

And it is a disaster that unduly affects women and children, many of whom have been moved several times and do not have access to the most basic services such as drinking water, food and protection.

“Each day, the conflict continues in Sudan, innocent lives are lost, the communities are torn and the trauma continues to haunt generations,” said Radhouane Nouicer, the UN designated expert on human rights in Sudan.

Emotional scar fabric

Children in Sudan are among the most affected by the crisis – 3.2 million children under the age of five should suffer from acute malnutrition over the next year.

During a recent trip Jebel Aulia, a locality in the state of Khartoum which is extremely risky of famine, Mr. Yett was horrified by what he saw.

“” Many children are reduced to the skin and bones“Said Mr. Yett.

However, these children do not only fight malnutrition – some of them have also been moved four or five times, and more than three quarters of Sudanese children are not educated.

“The emotional scar fabric is massive – children do not know where they are going … often feel like foreigners in their own country,” said Yett.

He spoke with a mother to Jebel Aulia whose daughter can be changed forever by violence.

“” Since the start of the war, my daughter has fallen into a state of silence, and I can feel her heart beat with fear“Said a mother.

A gender crisis

Around Sudan, while the crisis of spiral food insecurity, women and girls are the “most hungry face of the crisis”, according to the saving Nkurunziza, the United Nations representative in Sudan.

“With conditions now on thresholds close to famine in several regions of the country, it is not only a food crisis but a gender emergency caused by a failure of sensitive sex action,” said Nkurunziza at a Tuesday press briefing in Geneva.

A recent report In addition, the sexospecific nature of the crisis has returned to the house, revealing that households led by women in Sudan are three times more likely to feel severe insecurity than households led by men.

This is particularly worrying because the death, displacement or forced disappearance of men have left more and more women the only winners of the bread. In total, 75% of households led by women cannot meet basic food needs.

“” The data is unequivocal: households with female head slide more deeply in famineWith fewer adaptation mechanisms, less access to income and obstacles even more systemic than last year, ”says the report.

Nevertheless, Mr. Nkurunziza reminded the international community that women are not only victims but also agents of change in crisis circles.

The organizations led by women are on the front line, providing food in popular soups and supporting displaced families. And yet, they remain excluded from numerous decision -making processes and exposed to industrial risks.

An unchanged landscape of human rights

Food security and displacement are not the only challenges that Sudanese are faced. The situation of human rights is deteriorating rather, according to Mr. Nouicer who visited Sudan to meet the main government officials in July.

“I remain seriously concerned about the fact that civilians in Sudan continue to undergo generalized violations and abuses, in particular extrajudicial murders, sexual violence, forced trips and arbitrary detention,” he said.

He specifically highlighted the unique challenges that women, children and disabled people face when faced with movement and violence.

“The current war has devastated civil lives and transformed daily survival into a constant struggle.”

“Irreversible damage”

Mr. Yett said that during his last trip, he had seen the best and the worst of humanity – the devastating impact of violence and inaction coupled with the fully that peace and action could provide.

“” We are on the point of irreversible damage to a whole generation of childrenNot because we do not have the knowledge or tools to save them, but because we do not collectively manage to act with the urgency and on the scale that this crisis requires, “he said.

The first step is to guarantee access to the Sudan regions like Zamzam which have been cut off from the aid. With the approaching rainy season – and some routes already impassable – it only becomes more difficult.

Mr. Nouicer stressed that even if a ceasefire between rival soldiers at war has occurred, the level of devastation and abuse is so extreme that the future will require more than just peace.

“The path to follow requires more than ceases and peace talks. This requires a supported commitment to justice, responsibility and inclusive governance. »»

The Security Council will meet to discuss the increase in concerns in Israel and elsewhere on the disastrous conditions facing the hostages that remain in Gaza. He follows the release of recent videos from Hamas and other Palestinian activists showing emaciated captives, which the UN secretary general called “an unacceptable violation of human dignity”. A senior United Nations Political Affairs officials reiterated the “unbearable” conditions facing the Palestinians through the enclave ravaged by the war. Stay with UN News For live updates in coordination with the coverage of UN meetings. Application users can Follow the cover here.

“” The world wants and indeed needs a conventional plastic treaty because the crisis becomes uncontrollable – and people are frankly indignant“Said Inger Andersen, Dive Executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (Dive), the United Nations agency leading talks.

“We know that plastic is in our nature, in our oceans, and yes, Even in our body… What is certain is that no one wants to live with plastic pollution. »»

Uncontrollable

Unless an international agreement is inked, production and plastic waste should triple by 2060, causing significant damage – including our health – according to the UNEP.

Katrin Schneberger, head of the Swiss environment, echoes a legally binding treaty, insisting that plastic waste “stifle our lakes, harming wildlife and threatening human health. It is more than a simple environmental problem, it is a global challenge that requires urgent and collective action. “”

Addressing journalists on the sidelines of the negotiations of the treaty, Ms. Schneeberger stressed that there was “no call to a production ceiling” by the producing countries.

Compromise spirit?

“” Reaching a shared understanding that measures are necessary both on production and consumption can help unlock negotiations“She said as director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.

Supporters of an agreement compared it to the Paris climate agreement in terms of meaning. They also underlined the pressure which claims to be exerted against an agreement by Petrostats, whose crude oil and natural gas provide the constituent elements of the plastics.

“We will not recycle the crisis of plastic pollution: We need a systemic transformation to reach the transition to a circular economy“, Inger Andersen, executive director of the UNEP, insisted in the previous comments on the need for global regulations on plastics.

Virtuous circle

With 10 days of talks planned for the UN Treaty in Geneva, supporters of an agreement hope that the agreement will cover the complete life cycle of plastics, from design to production and elimination.

The treaty should “promote plastic circularity and prevent plastic leaks in the environment”, according to the text which now guides the negotiations carried out by the Intergovernmental negotiation committee (inc).

At 22 pages, the Document Inc Contains 32 projects of articles that will be discussed online. The text is designed to shape the future instrument and serves as a starting point for negotiations by countries in Geneva.

” A few [countries] will have to face the reduction, others will have to face mechanical recycling and others will treat alternatives, “said Andersen. »Let’s see how we can get there thanks to negotiations. I think there is a lot of good faith in the working group at the moment. “”

The talks led by UNEP followed a decision in 2022 by the member states to meet and develop a legally binding international instrument to put an end to the crisis of plastic pollution, including in the marine environment in the two years.

The scale of the problem is massive, with straws, cups and agitators, transporter bags and cosmetics containing single -use microbead microbeads found in our oceans and discharge sites.

In comments to journalists, Ms. Andersen recalled having turned Pakistan after deadly floods killed more than 1,000 people in 2022 and since debris and plastic were “a large part of the problem and that is why we are here, to find a solution while leaving no one behind and while ensuring that the economic wheels are constantly turning”.

Deactivation effect

The activists gathering on the sidelines of negotiations expressed their hopes for a treaty as ambitious as possible.

They included Shelan Saling, from California, who is the interim president of the Netwer Plastic Action Network (YPAN). “Plastic affects everything, from climate change, from health to fertility, including congenital malformations; It affects physical disorders, as well as invisible disabilities, ”she said UN News Monday.

Any treated in Geneva must be robust enough to meet the needs of all countries of the world whose approach differs concerning the design, production, waste and recycling of plastic. He will also have to resist the time test, said Andersen.

“I easily received help distributed by the UN,” said ABIR SAFI, a displaced person from the Zeitoun district of Gaza City, UN News. “Now we don’t get anything. I risk my life by going to the crossing of Zikim and returning with an empty bag. All I want is to go back to my children with food. ”

Ms. Safi said that she had never imagined that her children would become a fatal adventure. After losing her husband during the war, she found herself alone, faced with the responsibility of supporting her family in the midst of humanitarian conditions.

It was one of the thousands of citizens who gathered along Rashid Street in the north of Gaza, which links the crossing of Zikim north of Gaza, in the hope of receiving humanitarian aid.

“Balle on my head”

Our correspondent witnessed the arrival of thousands of Palestinians returning from a trip in search of food supplies. Thousands of emaciated bodies – men, women and children – have been taken in a scene that has become a daily event. Everyone runs in search of a few aid trucks that reach northern Gaza.

The United Nations has the capacity and resources necessary to distribute the aid in a safe and worthy manner to all those who need it in the Gaza Strip. The organization continues to request the lifting of the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on the entry and distribution of assistance to Gaza.

The danger lies not only in congestion and chaos, but also in death that hides around everyone. Fayza al-Turmisi, a displaced person from Shuja’iyya, described the horrible scene along rue Rashid in the north of Gaza.

“They fire us of shells and bullets here. We are forced to lie on the ground. I hide from more than 200 men and the bullets fly on my head. If you raise your head, you are struck. If you stay on the ground, the balls fall around you. ”

Between mourning and hunger

Mohammed Mudeiris, seven -year -old, said that he had lost his father in an air strike just the day before. He does not have the luxury of mourning for his father because he is now the only family support for his brothers and sisters.

By walking through the dense crowd, he extends his small hand, begging that a handful of flour to bring back to his brothers and sisters.

“I am the eldest of my brothers and sisters,” he said. “My father was killed in an air strike yesterday. I try to ask someone to give me a plate of flour or a meal of the help that has arrived today. ”

“I risk my life to bring food to my children”

The food race is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, motivated by the responsibilities of maternity and the needs of their children.

“I throw myself in danger to bring food for my children,” said Asma Masoud, who was moved from northern Gaza.

“We never get our right part of help,” she said. “My husband is paralyzed, and there are widows and women like me who cannot provide food for their children.”

Stressing that some young people take the help and sell it at exorbitant prices that she cannot afford to buy, Ms. Masoud called the world to ensure “a fair distribution mechanism and to allow UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestine refugees] and international organizations to do so ”.

The aid must be distributed by SMS so that each person in need receives their share, as was the previous case, she said.

“But now, only a few people take advantage and sell help,” she said. “We cannot tolerate this. It is an injustice. »»

‘I don’t know how I’m going to feed my children’ ‘

Ms. Sadi agreed with Ms. Masoud, complaining that “the beneficiaries are now largely thieves”.

“I have lost a lot of weight and all my health has disappeared,” said Safi. “I don’t know how I’m going to feed my children. I want to receive help with dignity. The help came by the United Nations, and I could easily go and receive it, but now I do not receive anything. »»

I want to receive help with dignity.

This chaotic system leaves widows, women, the elderly and many other complex humanitarian cases, such as Maqboula Adas, who supports her injured husband and her son who has a broken leg.

“My husband is injured and cannot move,” she said. “My eldest son has a broken leg, and I also have three daughters. No one supports us except God. Every day, I will try to get flour. If it was not for that, they would have died of hunger. ”

The carts bear corpses

At the height of this tragedy, emerging macabre scenes. Instead of carrying bags of flour, a cart pulled by horses transports the bodies of at least seven Palestinians who were killed while they were trying to get help.

While some young men wore bags of flour on their backs, the ambulances bring the wounded and the dead in the northern regions. The realization of food aid has a high price.

A young man was injured in the head and the face as he tried to collect aid.

“I came to collect aid, but today it was not my day,” he said. “I will come back despite my injury, and I hope God will provide me next time.”

Risk of famine

Gaza faces a serious risk of famine, with indicators of food consumption and nutrition at their worst levels since the start of the current conflict, according to a warning issued by the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC).

At least 147 deaths due to hunger and malnutrition were reported, including 88 children. More than 28,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition have been recorded in children, according to reports from the World Health Organization and World Food Program.

Despite the promises to facilitate the flow of help, the restrictions on the entrance to food and fuel, as well as ongoing attacks near level passages, prevented supplies from reaching people in need. In addition, the chaotic distribution of aid within Gaza has further complicated the situation and placed civilian civilians.

The United Nations Human Rights Office (Ohchr) documented the deaths of hundreds of people who try to access help in the middle of the current shots and bombing near the road truck roads and military distribution points.

“If I am killed, who will take care of my children?”

In the middle of this chaos, the widow Enaam Siam, mother of six, tells her fight for food.

“I am a widow and mother of six orphaned children, one of whom is injured,” she said. “Every day, I go out in the middle of death to bring them food. I see the dead and the wounded. ”

She asked why help was no longer delivered to warehouses and distributed by SMS.

“If I am killed, who will take care of my children?” There are thousands of women in a similar situation. We want security, peace and a fair system that guarantees that help reaches those who need it. ”

Meanwhile Thursday and again on Saturday, Palestinian Islamic activists and Hamas activists have published disturbing videos of two emaciated Israeli hostages, aroused world indignation and the conviction of UN leaders, including Secretary General António Guterres Monday.

The illustrated hostages, Roma Braslavsk and Evyatar David, are two of the 49 still detained in Gaza, including 27 which, according to the Israeli army, are dead.

During the daily briefing on Monday in New York, the UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that the secretary general “was very shocked by this unacceptable violation of human dignity”.

The UN Rights Volker Türk added in a declaration That it was dismayed by the humiliating treatment of the hostages. He and the Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, reiterated Their call for an unconditional immediate release of all hostages is still organized since the terrorist attacks on October 7.

The High Commissioner said that the “intolerable” view of the famine in Gaza recalled that violence should end. “Saving lives must be everyone’s priority. »»

He called on Israel to immediately allow and facilitate rapid and unhindered help: “refusing civilians access to food can constitute a war crime, as well as potentially a crime against humanity.”

Attack against humanitarian workers

On Sunday, the Israeli army would have struck the seat of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Khan Younis, killing one and injuring three other staff members.

The installation is marked with the emblem of the red crescent and is therefore protected by international humanitarian law.

The United Nations Rights Office (Ohchr) in Palestine expressed Deep shock and outrage in the face of these murders.

“These workers continue to engage in life safeguard efforts by putting their own life in danger,” said the OHCHR.

Help entry

In the midst of these controversies, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, published on social networks On Saturday, saying that since Friday, the agency had brought 24 trucks with medical supplies in Gaza.

The articles included essential drugs, trauma and surgery supplies, treatments for non -transmitted diseases and laboratory and water supplies.

Mr. Haq also pointed out on Monday that in recent days, the UN and its partners have collected wheat flour, ready -to -eat rations and hot meals, passing by Gaza points, but most of the cargo was taken by hungry and desperate before reaching the expected destinations.

In addition, hygiene kits and nutrition supplies, including high energy cookies for pregnant women and breastfeeding and infants preparations, entered last week.

However, during the second week since the Israeli announcement of the tactical breaks to allow safe passages for the United Nations help convoys, Mr. Haq said that realities on the ground remain largely the same.

This includes many challenges to provide help, which led to the obstacle of two of the 11 missions on Sunday and the full passage of only seven.

Famine conditions

This help is always a fraction of what is necessary, as a catastrophic food crisis aggravates through the band.

The world gastronomic program (Wfp)) said He “does everything possible to distribute vital food assistance to families”, but reported on Sunday that more than half a million people in Gaza are undergoing famine type conditions.

The United Nations Help Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) released a audio De Manar, an employee who works in Gaza on Monday. She said that “food is never sufficient” and that many work in heat for hours to search for food and medical supplies.

The Commissioner General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, underlines The fact that this quasi-family is largely due to deliberate efforts to dismantle the non-coordinated humanitarian system through the Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and supported by the United States (GHF), which is responsible for the murder On nearly 1,400 Palestinians hungry near its sites and convoy routes, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Priorifying the GHF, Israel has prevented UNRWA-“the backbone of the humanitarian response”-from provoking aid since March 2, he said.