Israeli foreign minister cancels meeting with Antonio Guterres after UN secretary says Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum’
Two Israeli soldiers stand in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, overlooking a sculpture park in the grounds of the Yad Mordechai Museum, close to Israel's northern border with the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli leaders are still grappling with the dilemma of whether to launch a ground offensive into Gaza or give more time for negotiations, in the hope of bringing about the release of some of the more than 200 hostages in Hamas captivity.
Several people, including children, have been killed after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, located in the south of the Gaza strip. Video: Reuters “We have 600,000 people who have come seeking shelter. They need food, they need water, they need sanitation services. They need mattresses, they need protection,” she said.
French president Emmanuel Macron and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu shake hands after their joint press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AFP via Getty Images Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan called Mr Guterres’s speech “shocking”, saying he was “unfit” to head the international body, and calling on him to resign immediately.
Mr Netanyahu told him the Hamas attack was like the Holocaust. “Hamas butchered, Hamas beheaded, Hamas burned babies alive, Hamas raped, Hamas kidnapped hostages,” he said.
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