The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called for an immediate end to the merciless killing of people in the besieged Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime.
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"Council members called for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire," said Rwandan Deputy UN Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe in a press statement read out after a Security Council session on Thursday.
Rwanda is the current president of the UN Security Council.
"Council members encouraged the use of humanitarian pauses,” Nduhungirehe added.
The international body also expressed “grave disappointment” that its previous calls for a truce have gone unheeded.
In a presidential statement on Monday, the Security Council called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and expressed "grave concern" over the rising civilian deaths.
The UN Security Council has so far failed to condemn Tel Aviv for killing hundreds of innocent civilians in its deadly aggression on the besieged territory.
Earlier on Thursday, Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that 24 days of conflict in Gaza has exacerbated the situation in the Palestinian territory.
“Some 440,000 people have been displaced, almost 24 percent of the population, and over 240,000 are housed in UN-run facilities while others seek refuge wherever they can, in government buildings or hospital grounds,” Amos said.
Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip since July 8. Israeli forces also began a ground offensive against the impoverished Palestinian territory on July 17.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aerial and ground offensive in the war-stricken Gaza Strip keeps rising.
More than 1,437 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 8,000 others injured since the Israeli military first launched its offensive on Gaza on July 8.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, has been launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
