Algeria, Russia and China call for urgent access of aid to Gaza Strip

 Algeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amar Bendjama called for urgent access of aid to northern Gaza to avoid a total famine in the Strip.

“Hunger and malnutrition have caused a catastrophic crisis in Gaza… In order to avoid a total famine, we need to quickly secure access of aid to the northern part of the Strip,” Bendjama said in a speech during a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the issue of humanitarian aid access to Gaza.

Bendjama noted that last December, the Security Council adopted a resolution to take an action to facilitate the procedures for conducting humanitarian access procedures, but events and facts have proven the ineffectiveness of this resolution.

In turn, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya affirmed that the floating platform that the floating pier established by the US off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid did not rise to the required level.

China’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, called on the Israeli occupation to respond to the international community’s call to ensure urgent access of aid into Gaza.

Fu stressed that the main way to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe is through a permanent ceasefire and continued efforts by international community to establish an independent Palestinian state.