UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “dismayed” by civilian casualties in Gaza and “deeply disturbed” by Israel’s strike on a constructing containing worldwide media retailers, a spokesman mentioned Saturday in response to reporters’ questions.
The feedback got here as Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with air strikes, killing 10 members of an prolonged household and demolishing the 13-floor Gaza constructing housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera and The Associated Press information company, with Palestinian militants firing again barrages of rockets.
“The Secretary-General is dismayed by the rising variety of civilian casualties, together with the demise of ten members of the identical household, together with kids, on account of an Israeli airstrike final night time within the al-Shati camp in Gaza, purportedly geared toward a Hamas chief,” his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said in the written response to questions on the Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
Guterres was “also deeply disturbed by the destruction by an Israeli airstrike today of a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed the offices of several international media organizations as well as residential apartments,” Dujarric continued.
“The Secretary-General reminds all sides that any indiscriminate concentrating on of civilian and media buildings violates worldwide regulation and should be averted in any respect prices,” he said.
Israeli air and artillery strikes on Gaza since Monday have killed 145 people including 41 children, and wounded another 1,100, health officials say, the worst violence in the region since 2014.
Palestinian armed groups have fired at least 2,300 rockets at Israel, killing 10 people, including a child and a soldier, and wounding over 560 Israelis. Israeli air defenses have intercepted many rockets.
US Secretary for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr was to hold talks Sunday with Israeli leaders before meeting Palestinian officials to seek a “sustainable calm,” the State Department mentioned. The UN Security Council was to fulfill Sunday to debate the violence.
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