Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, stated that a special tribunal for Gaza could be necessary as the Israeli genocide unfolds further with complete impunity and no accountability.
He also lamented the loss of humanitarian aid workers, saying it “has never been greater.”
“The impunity that goes along with the choosing of war as your first option has never been greater. And the impunity for killing humanitarian aid workers has never been greater… Impunity we have seen rampant in this war… Maybe there is a need for a special tribunal [for Gaza],” Griffiths said as quoted by the Financial Times.
He also described the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the “worst ever”, saying that it is nearing a new phase of rampant disease and hunger that would be the leading cause of deaths in the Strip and that the agony Palestinians have to endure will only get worse.
Griffiths also addressed the death toll in Gaza, saying that once what is under the rubble gets revealed, the number, currently at least 19,000, will increase exponentially.
In the context of Israeli strikes, Griffiths debunked all claims of accurate strikes launched by “Israel” in the south. “The truth of the matter is we have not seen it at all in the south. On the contrary, we’ve seen it grow more,” he told the newspaper, claiming that “the Americans doing a lot of diplomacy on this.”
UN humanitarian plan ‘in tatters’
Looking back at his November 10-point plan for containing the genocide and restricting its toll in the Strip, Griffiths admitted that it was rendered useless. “I just threw it in the bin… I was a fool to even think that it was sensible… We turn around and find out the truth: the war ain’t over yet, it ain’t half over… I don’t think we’re halfway through this yet. We’ve got weeks and weeks to go of this savage war,” he said.
Last week, Griffiths warned of the potential complete UN humanitarian efforts collapse in Gaza due to heavy and reckless Israeli bombardments that have eliminated any safe places in the Strip.
The Israeli occupation’s genocidal aggression on the South “made no place safe for civilians in southern Gaza, which had been a cornerstone of the humanitarian plan to protect civilians and thus to provide aid to them.”
Southern Gaza was left “without places of safety,” and as a result, the UN plan was “in tatters”, Griffiths explained.
“We do not have a humanitarian operation in southern Gaza that can be called by that name anymore,” the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs stressed.
source: AlMayadeen
