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Continued crossfire between Israeli forces and Hamas is “unacceptable,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells the UN General Assembly on Thursday, saying “the fighting must stop immediately.”
“I am deeply shocked by the continued air and artillery bombardment by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza,” Guterres says.
“If there is a hell on earth, it is the lives of children in Gaza,” says Guterres.
He adds that “indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas and other militant groups” towards population centers in Israel which have left 12 dead, including two children was also “unacceptable.” Thousands of rockets have been fired at Israeli cities and towns from Gaza in the past 11 days.
Basic Services At Risk Of Collapsing In Gaza, Action Against Hunger Warns
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JERUSALEM, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Recent conflict between Israel and Palestinian Armed Groups in Gaza has damaged or destroyed critical basic services, including hospitals, roads, and water systems, warned Action Against Hunger, an international, nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to provide humanitarian relief in the region.
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Since May 9, when violence began to escalate, more than 75 conflict-related incidents have affected networks supplying electricity as well as water and sanitation, such as sewers, wells, water pumping stations, solid waste dumps, and the desalination plant in northern Gaza, which supplies water to some 250,000 people. In total, more than 800,000 people in Gaza have been affected by damage to water and sanitation systems, intensifying the risk that illness, including COVID-19, w
UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire in Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Antonio Guterres News
Fighting in the Middle East must be stopped immediately, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a UN General Assembly meeting on Thursday, calling on Israel and the Palestinians to call for an immediate ceasefire and launch a full humanitarian appeal for funding.
“In the last ten days, there has been an increase in deadly violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly Gaza, and in Israel, which has been dangerous and horrific,” Guterres said at a meeting called by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab Group.
“I am extremely impressed with the air and artillery bombardment by Israeli defense forces in Gaza,” he added.
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