A senior UN official warned Tuesday that Gaza’s recovery remains “far too slow” and that worsening violence in the occupied West Bank risks wider escalation across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Anadolu reports.
“I am briefing you today as the situation in the West Bank is rapidly deteriorating, as we witnessed in the last few days,” Ramiz Alakbarov, UN deputy special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told the UN Security Council.
Alakbarov warned that a wider escalation was “increasingly likely” unless immediate steps were taken to reverse the current course.
Recalling his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, he said humanitarian conditions had “improved somewhat, but progress is far too slow.”
He said recent advances in clearing solid waste and coordinating the entry of sanitation supplies were “relevant” but “highly insufficient” given the scale of needs.
