UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza after more than 21 months of Israel’s war with Hamas.
“The last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. The UN chief “deplores the growing reports of children and adults suffering from malnutrition.”
More than two dozen Western countries Monday also called for an immediate end to the war, saying that suffering had “reached new depths” as Israel’s military expanded its operations to Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah.