At least 40 heads of delegation will take the podium at the General Assembly this Friday to present their views and concerns.

The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said the day before that the international community’s inaction in Gaza could be remembered as a failure in the face of a new genocide.

Lazzarini told a ministerial meeting that the international community is facing the consequences of “inaction and impunity”.

He noted that what is happening in Gaza is “a famine resulting from replacing the humanitarian operation with mercenaries using food as weapons; an imminent military occupation in Gaza; emboldened settlers and an advancing annexation in the occupied West Bank; and a multilateral system in peril.”

“History will ask why our predecessors failed to prevent the genocides perpetrated on their watch. With the warnings issued by the International Court of Justice last year, and the release of the Commission of Inquiry report last week, this question must now be asked of us.”

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