{"id":209559,"date":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209559"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:46:59","slug":"auto-insert-209559","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209559\/","title":{"rendered":"USG for Humanitarian Affairs Holms condemns loss of life in the ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla incident – Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Statement of John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the 'Free Gaza' Flotilla Crisis<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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(New York, 31 May 2010): As Emergency Relief Coordinator, I condemn this dreadful waste of life over a humanitarian issue. Whatever the truth about what happened, which the full investigation called for by the Secretary-General should establish quickly, such an incident should never have happened or needed to happen. <\/p><\/div>\n

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The blockade of Gaza by Israel has been unacceptable, unnecessary and counterproductive from its beginning in 2007. It has worsened conditions of life for one and a half million Palestinians, deepened poverty and food insecurity, prevented reconstruction, and increased aid dependence by destroying livelihoods and economic activity. It has helped only the extremists. <\/p><\/div>\n

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I call for this disaster to be the occasion for this collective punishment of the people of Gaza to be lifted once and for all. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Statement of John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs  and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the 'Free Gaza' Flotilla Crisis (New York, 31 May 2010): As Emergency Relief Coordinator, I condemn this dreadful waste of life over a humanitarian issue. Whatever the truth about what happened, which the full investigation called for by the Secretary-General […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1945,1829,5358,2005,5200,1857,2185,5362],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-209559","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-ClosuresCurfewsBlockades","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-ngo-civil-society","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209559"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}