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Every UN member state that sells weapons to Israel has a "responsibility" for their use, a UN official said.
"We want to see that the decisions of the International Court of Justice are respected. We want to see funding for UNRWA resumed and frankly increased given the growing needs. I think that every member state that sells or transfers weapons has a responsibility regarding how those weapons are used anywhere in the world," Stephane Dujarric said when asked if the UN would call on member states to cut financial and military aid to Israel, including those who cut funding to the UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA).
Dujarric reiterated the UN's demand for a humanitarian ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages and an increase in humanitarian aid.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), as airstrikes targeting Rafah continue to intensify, there have been reports of civilians fleeing the area towards Deir al Balah and the An Nuseirat refugee camp.
"There is nowhere to go," Dujarric said, adding that protected areas that were supposed to be safe have been attacked.
"Going north is not safe because of unexploded ordnance, because of the lack of shelter. Now, there are people moving, but I am not aware of any mass movement of people" , he said.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7, killing at least 28,567 people and injuring 68,291 others, while around 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.
Israel's war in Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
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