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UN Secretary-General Guterres urges ‘immediate’ cease-fire in Gaza

UN Secretary-General Guterres urges ‘immediate’ cease-fire in Gaza

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire” in Gaza, saying that nothing can justify the collective punishment of Palestinians as Israel continues to bombard civilian infrastructure after 100 days.

“We need an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. To ensure sufficient aid gets to where it is needed. To facilitate the release of the hostages. To tamp down the flames of wider war because the longer the conflict in Gaza continues, the greater the risk of escalation and miscalculation,” Guterres mentioned at a press briefing in New York.

The struggle, sparked by a Hamas shock assault on Israel, has created a humanitarian disaster for the two.4 million individuals within the besieged strip, the United Nations and help teams warn, and decreased a lot of the territory to rubble.

In response, Israel launched a collection of indiscriminate assaults which have killed at the very least 24,100 individuals in Gaza, largely ladies and youngsters, and destroyed hospitals, faculties, refugee camps, bakeries and extra.

The U.N. says greater than three months of preventing have displaced roughly 85% of the territory’s inhabitants, crowded into shelters and struggling to get meals, water, gasoline and medical care.

Guterres condemned a humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza that he mentioned was “beyond words.”

The “vast majority” of the U.N.’s Palestinian employees have fled their properties and 152 employees members have been killed since Oct. 7, Guterres mentioned – “the largest single loss of life in the history of our organization.”

With help deliveries struggling to get by to a “traumatized people,” Gaza now faces “the long shadow of starvation.”

“Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” Guterres mentioned.

The U.N. chief additionally warned about what he mentioned was an escalating spillover of the battle, together with throughout the Lebanon-Israeli border. “This risks triggering a broader escalation… and profoundly affecting regional stability,” he mentioned.

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