Recently, the UN Deputy Assistant Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Ramiz Alakbarov, reported that actions by Israeli forces have caused more than 500 deaths in the two Palestinian territories since October, and that Tel Aviv has continued the demolition of more than 2,850 homes in the West Bank and the expansion of settlements.

“The consequences are serious: a deepening of the occupation, increasing fragmentation of Palestinian territory, and strengthening the territorial contiguity of settlements,” he stated.

Furthermore, he warned that the precarious humanitarian situation in Gaza, whose population depends almost entirely on foreign aid, is compounded by an Israeli pressure campaign against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, whose headquarters were destroyed and set on fire.

Alakbarov noted that Israel’s actions “further undermine the prospects for peace and could jeopardize progress in implementing the ceasefire.”

In turn, the Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, denounced that “Israel’s objective is not peace, but domination.”

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