United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday called again for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza to allow humanitarian actions. The Portugal-born official said he was extremely distressed by the violent death of civilians in Gaza and the humanitarian catastrophe that continues there.
Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ImagesIsrael’s ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that his country will block visas to U.N. representatives after the organization’s head said this month’s attacks by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and noted that the “Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”U.N. Secretary General António Guterres made a speech about the ongoing crisis in Gaza before the U.N.’s Security Council on Tuesday, in which he also called for
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday warned that some 4.3 million girls worldwide were at risk of being subjected to a Female Genital Mutilation procedure and insisted that eliminating such a practice should be likened to other goals mankind needs to attain by 2030.
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