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UN chief warns of 'uncontainable' crisis as Israel bombards besieged Gaza

 

UN chief warns of 'uncontainable' crisis as Israel bombar

Secretary General Antonio Guterres opens UNSC session with calls for truce, saying UN is "actively engaging all sides toward an immediate ceasefire".

A rescuer holds the hand of a victim at the site of Israeli air strikes, in Gaza, on May 16, 2021.
A rescuer holds the hand of a victim at the site of Israeli air strikes, in Gaza, on May 16, 2021. (Reuters)

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has pleaded for an immediate end to deadly Israeli violence in blockaded Gaza, warning a Security Council meeting that the fighting could plunge the region into an "uncontainable" crisis.

"Fighting must stop. It must stop immediately," Guterres said as he opened a Security Council session delayed by Israel's ally the United States, calling the violence that has killed nearly 200 people over the past week "utterly appalling."

"It has the potential to unleash an uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis and to further foster extremism, not only in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, but in the region as a whole," he said.ds besieged Gaza

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