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UN chief: ceasefire, de-escalation “essential”
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, told the Security Council on Tuesday that “everyone in Gaza is hungry – with a quarter of Gaza’s population, more than half a million people – grappling with catastrophic levels of food insecurity.”
He said that “disease is spreading as the health system collapses.”
Guterres added that Palestinians in Gaza “not only risk being killed or injured by relentless bombardments; they also run a growing chance of contracting infectious diseases like hepatitis A, dysentery, cholera” and people with chronic diseases “are at risk of dying.”
In addition to denying humanitarian missions access to northern Gaza, “dozens of humanitarians have been waiting for months to receive their visas from the Government of Israel,” he said.
In addition to calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the UN chief added that “de-escalation is essential” in the Red Sea, where the de facto Yemeni state authorities have imposed a blockade in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
The US and UK have hit Yemen with airstrikes following attacks on cargo ships.
Guterres also noted the “almost daily attacks on facilities hosting US and international coalition forces in Iraq and Syria” and airstrikes in Iran and Syria, which those countries have attributed to Israel.
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