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Deploy peacekeeping force to Gaza: Rights body urges UN General Assembly

Iran Press TV

Friday, 22 August 2025 7:39 PM

An international rights group has urged the United Nations General Assembly to invoke a historic resolution allowing it to bypass the world body's Security Council and deploy a peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip.

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor made the plea on Friday after the UN declared that the Gaza Governorate in the northern part of the Gaza Strip was suffering from actual famine that could spread far within weeks.

It attributed the situation to the Israeli regime's deliberate policy of starving the Gaza Strip to the extent that - in accordance with Israeli officials' own admission - no food or water would enter the coastal sliver.

The body denounced the approach as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide.

It, therefore, called on the General Assembly to implement its "Resolution 377 A(V) of 1950 ("Uniting for Peace")."

The resolution, Euro-Med reminded, "empowers the Assembly to convene an emergency special session and adopt collective measures, including the establishment of a peacekeeping force, when the Security Council fails to act due to vetoes or lack of consensus."

Euro-Med was referring to the unexceptional trend of the United States', the regime's biggest ally's casting its notorious veto power in the face of punitive measures targeting Tel Aviv.

The invariable nullification of such disciplinary steps by Washington has historically gone hand in hand with its providing the regime with unstinting and unprecedented arms support, including during its October 2023-present war of genocide on the coastal sliver.

Euro-Med, meanwhile, identified the UN declaration as "late," but yet an "unequivocal" proof that the Israeli regime had deliberately manufactured famine in Gaza through systematic starvation policies, obstruction of humanitarian aid, and destruction of local food sources.

"It represents the first such acknowledgment since the start of Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians, in which starvation has been one of its most brutal tools."

The body, meanwhile, vehemently denounced the regime's and the US's establishment of the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" on May 27, which is supposedly tasked with delivering food to Gazans, but has actually "exacerbated the crisis."

It cited the GHF distribution points' having rather turned into "death traps, where Israeli forces, sometimes accompanied by US mercenaries, have killed 2,036 people and injured 15,064 others, with thousands more dying while attempting to reach aid trucks in Israeli-controlled areas."

It also noted that "the foundation's distribution mechanism deliberately excluded vast segments of Gaza's population."