DUBLIN, August 4, 2025 (WAFA) – Irish President Michael Higgins urged the UN chief to invoke powers under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter against Israel over its ongoing genocidal aggression against Gaza and use of starvation as a method of warfare, according to RTÉ news.

He said air dropping food in Gaza was not good enough and it "means the people who are very vulnerable, the lame, the old and the young cannot in fact get that food easily".

“I cannot really stand in a public venue and give a public speech and speak about our language when I see such incredible, incredible destruction of an entire people taking place on our television screens every evening,” he added.

He said the UN Secretary-General António Guterres should use the procedures of the UN Charter, which he said are there to help the people of Gaza.

He pointed out that the Chapter VII procedure would allow Guterres to seek to put together an international defence of a corridor to allow aid into the enclave.

He described it as "outrageous" that there were 6,000 trucks with enough food for three months waiting to get into Gaza and that they are being blocked.

"We are now in a position of seeing the nadir of human behaviour with images like these occurring at the same time as children are deprived of medicine and mothers are deprived of water and the necessary means of addressing malnutrition as they watch their children die.”

"All of these actions must not just receive the opprobrium of the world, but must lead to practical actions that cannot wait until September to be addressed.”

"I repeat the suggestion which I have made previously with regard to how Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter may provide a mechanism for ensuring safe access of aid."

K.F.