The Secretary General Of The United Nations Calls There An International Consensus To Express The Importance Of Ceasefire To Israel

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Wikimedia Commons/US Mission/Eric Bridiers)

JAKARTA - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during his visit to Jordan on Monday, there was a growing international consensus to inform Israel the need for a ceasefire and attacks on Rafah would cause a humanitarian disaster.

"We see the growing consensus that appears in the international community to inform Israel that a ceasefire is needed and I am also seeing a growing consensus," Secretary General Guterres said.

"I heard in the US, I heard from the European Union, not to mention of course the Muslim world, to clearly inform Israel that any land invasion into Rafah could mean a humanitarian catastrophe," he continued at a press conference.

Secretary General Guterres visited Egypt and Jordan as part of the annual Ramadan solidarity tour to Muslim countries, with previously traveling to the Egyptian border with Gaza on Saturday.

In El Arish, Egypt on Saturday, Secretary General Guterres admitted that the world body did not have the power to stop the war of the Israeli regime in Gaza. He also criticized humanitarian aid stockpiled on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza as the Israeli regime continued to ban entry to the aid into Gaza.

On Sunday, he met with President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mesri, saying the only effective and efficient way to deliver heavy goods to meet Gaza's humanitarian needs was by road, including an exponential increase in commercial shipping, and warning of the impact of war on Gaza's entire world.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said the death toll since the Hamas-Israeli conflict in Gaza broke on October 7, 2023, now stands at 32,226 Palestinians, mostly women and children, killed, and 74,518 others injured, quoted from Anadolu.

In addition, the war is said to have caused 85 percent of the population to evacuate, destroy or damage most of the infrastructure in the enclave and create conditions for starvation because aid deliveries are still insufficient.