<article data-history-node-id="420976" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-killing-field-un-chief-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-killing-field-un-chief-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza is a killing field, UN chief says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that Gaza has been abandoned without “a drop of aid” for more than a month, as Palestinians are paying the price of an ominous situation in the Stip.</p> <p>“More than an entire month has passed without a drop of aid into Gaza. No food. No fuel. No medicine. No commercial supplies,” he told reporters in New York.</p> <p>He added: "As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop".</p> <p>The UN chief has reiterated that, under international law, Israel is obliged to allow aid into the Strip for Palestinians in the occupied territory.</p> <p>"No humanitarian supplies can enter Gaza. Meanwhile, at the crossing points, food, medicine and shelter supplies are piling up, and vital equipment is stuck," Guterres said.</p> <p>Although the UN is "ready and determined to deliver" aid, Guterres said Israel’s newly proposed "authorisation mechanisms" for aid deliveries "risk further controlling and callously limiting aid down to the last calorie and grain of flour".</p> <p>"Let me be clear: We will not participate in any arrangement that does not fully respect the humanitarian principles: humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality. Unimpeded humanitarian access must be guaranteed," he said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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