In a rare joint statement, heads of 18 UN organisations decry the escalating toll on lives, with over 85 UN relief workers among the casualties, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Guterres voices alarm about the "clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing." / Photo: AA.
"For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart," the heads of 18 UN organisations said in a rare joint statement late Sunday. The UNRWA currently employs some 13,000 staff in Palestine's Gaza, a besieged territory that is home to 2.4 million people.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has also urged an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as he warned that the bombarded Gaza was becoming a"graveyard for children."
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