{"id":195443,"date":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195443"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:00:41","slug":"auto-insert-195443","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195443\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General urges end to violence in Gaza as world marks Eid Al-Fitr and UNRWA able to deliver medical supplies to Yarmouk camp for the first time since January &#8211; SG&#8217;s Spokesperson&#8217;s noon briefing (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<br \/>\nBY FARHAN HAQ, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MONDAY, 28 JULY 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MIDDLE EAST: AS WORLD MARKS EID AL-FITR, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES END TO VIOLENCE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/CA720D415D49114085257D2300528BDE.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">spoke to reporters<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;today on the situation in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=70\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>Gaza<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, saying that, as the world marks Eid al-Fitr, it is time for an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the name of humanity, the violence must stop.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">He said that the death toll keeps climbing. The fighting has claimed well over 1,000 Palestinian lives &#8211; most of them civilians, hundreds of them children. Hamas rocket fire has claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General said that Israelis and Palestinians have a responsibility to stop the fighting, to start the dialogue now, and to address the root causes that will finally break the endless cycle of senseless suffering. That means securing peace through mutual respect, an end to the economic strangulation of Gaza and the nearly half century of occupation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">More suffering and siege conditions in Gaza will only hurt innocent civilians, further isolate Israel, empower extremists on all sides, and leave our world far less safe.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/B3231A876441686B85257D2300577E9A.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">statement <\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">issued earlier today, the Secretary-General <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">called<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;on parties to build on the current calm. With hundreds of Palestinian civilians already killed in Gaza and horrifying levels of physical destruction, he urges those responsible to step back from provoking or inflicting yet more tragic violence on civilians there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the Secretary-General&#8217;s work, the Spokesman noted that the Secretary-General had just recently returned from a week-long trip to the Middle East in which he had spoken to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as well as others in the region and with influence on the parties, to push for a ceasefire.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the efforts by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to tally the casualties in the fighting, Mr. Haq noted that OCHA receives its information from a variety of sources, including the local Ministry of Health and Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups and attempts to cross-check the information it receives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>U.N. AGENCY DELIVERS MEDICAL SUPPLIES IN SYRIA&#8217;S YARMOUK FOR FIRST TIME SINCE JANUARY<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">OCHA<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">) says that for the first time since January, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>UNRWA<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">) was able to distribute basic healthcare items and medicines to Palestine refugees in need in Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus city in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=146\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>Syria<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Despite this positive development, the Relief and Works Agency was forced to halt the distribution of food in the camp over the weekend due to lack of authorization, interrupting food distributions that have been taking place since 16 July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON 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