UN Secretary General António Guterres said the Hamas attacks 'did not happen in a vacuum' and that Palestinians 'have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation', prompting Israel to call for his resignation.
The UN Secretary General has called for parties to the Middle East conflict to pull back from the brink.In the room were the foreign ministers of Israel and Palestine as well as the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, as well as Tom Tugendhat, Britain's security minister."Nothing could justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians," he said.
In his address, the Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad Al-Maliki criticised the Security Council over its failure to unite and act. When he took the floor, Mr Cohen held up a photo collage of Israel children who are being held hostage in Gaza.When Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, took the floor he said he was here today because the United Nations had"a crucial role to play in addressing this crisis".The Council also heard from the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, who described the mounting civilian casualties.
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