The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has warned against the devastating Israeli aggression on the Gaza urging for an end to the regime’s killing campaign in the besieged strip.

“These events will reverberate for generations and shape the region in ways we cannot yet fully comprehend,” said the UN officials in briefings to the UN Security Council last night to discuss the situation in the Middle East.

They explained that the humanitarian situation in Gaza, with the onset of winter, is “catastrophic,” especially developments in northern Gaza with widespread and near-total displacement of civilians, widespread destruction and land clearing, amid what appears to be a disturbing disregard for international humanitarian law.

They stressed that the current conditions in Gaza “are among the worst we have seen during the entire war and we do not expect them to improve.”

UN officials spoke about the situation in the occupied West Bank, which “remains stuck in a devastating cycle of violence and despair.”

They pointed to the continued Israeli military attacks on Palestinian cities and refugee camps and the continued unabated colonial expansion accelerated by the Israeli regime.

In this context, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process warned that the steps being taken on the ground in Gaza and the occupied West Bank “are taking us further and further away from the peace process and from an eventual viable Palestinian state.”

Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, for his part called violence as a dead end and said, “Our region does not need more killing, but a just political solution. The solution is not in the disappearance of one people, but in mutual acceptance and coexistence. It is not in killing or being killed, but in living and allowing others to live.”

He made clear that the only course of action the Security Council must take, if it is to retain any credibility, is to “demand an immediate and unconditional ceasefire under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.”

Mansour also called for decisive action to end colony activity in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, including taking action against Israeli officials, “before we see colonies built again in Gaza.”