Secretary-General/G7, Gaza & other topics - Daily Press Briefing | United Nations

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Highlights: Secretary-General/G7 Gaza Occupied Palestinian Territory Syria Ukraine Mozambique Colombia Afghanistan SDG Fund Resident Coordinator/Botswana International Day to Combat Desertification and Drought ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ SECRETARY-GENERAL/G7 The Secretary-General is about to arrive in Kananaskis, in Canada, where he will attend an outreach session of the G7 leaders’ summit.  As we mentioned yesterday, he has been invited to take part in a discussion on energy security, with a focus on diversification, technology and investment to ensure access and affordability in a changing world. This session will include G7 and other leaders invited to the outreach segment of the summit. Later today, the Secretary-General will also hold bilateral meetings with leaders attending the summit, including with Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada and G7 President.   Yesterday, in Calgary, the Secretary-General attended a dinner organized by the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon, for the outreach leaders. The Secretary-General will be back in New York tomorrow. GAZA The Secretary-General condemns the loss of lives and injuries of civilians in Gaza who are once again being shot at while seeking food. It is unacceptable. The Secretary-General continues to call for an immediate and independent investigation into all such reports and for accountability to be established. The basic needs of the Palestinian population in Gaza are enormous and remain unmet. Israel has clear obligations under international humanitarian law to agree to and facilitate humanitarian relief for all civilians who need it. The unimpeded entry of humanitarian assistance at scale must be restored immediately. The UN and all humanitarian actors must be allowed to work in safety and security under conditions of full respect for humanitarian principles. All hostages must be released immediately and unconditionally.  The Secretary-General continues to call for an immediate permanent ceasefire. OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY Meanwhile, our colleagues with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that today, partners working on health reported that more than 60 people were killed and over 280 injured, some critically, while waiting for aid in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its troops shot at a crowd and that the incident is under review. The casualties were brought to Nasser Medical Complex, where emergency and intensive care units are already overwhelmed, and medical teams are operating with extremely limited supplies. Seventy of the injured were referred to field hospitals, primarily to the International Medical Corps’ Field Hospital.   According to the Ministry of Health, as of yesterday, 338 people had been killed and more than 2,800 injured while trying to access food near distribution sites, referring to non-UN militarized hubs. Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/ossg/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=17%20June%202025


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