UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the war on Gaza as unlike any other conflict he has witnessed during his tenure, warning of its devastating scale. He pointed to International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings that ordered Israel to prevent genocide, allow investigations and enable greater humanitarian access.

UN agencies reiterated calls for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday to help alleviate Palestinian suffering, as a new US 20-point plan raised hopes of a halt to the fighting.

Jens Laerke, a spokesman for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, says the UN stands “ready and prepared and capable to increase aid deliveries inside Gaza, whenever the opportunity is such that we are allowed to do so and the… safety and security of doing so is there indeed.”

The report concludes that Israel has failed to prevent genocide, is still committing genocide, and has failed to punish genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It calls on all States to prevent genocide by ceasing the transfer of weapons to Israel, and to ensure that individuals and corporations do not contribute to it.

At least 11 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and a child, were killed Tuesday in a wave of fresh Israeli air and artillery strikes across the

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US President Donald Trump indicated on Monday that former British prime minister Tony Blair may play a role in the new international body that will be formed for Gaza.This will be part of the process that leads to the end of the war and the establishment of peace.

The U.N. Security Council once again aired a divide between the veto-wielding United States and most of the rest of the world over how to end the war in the Gaza Strip and resolve the Mideast conflict.

When President Donald Trump delivers the first address of his second term to the annual gathering of global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, he will be at odds with more than half of the member nations,

A United Nations commission of inquiry’s finding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza has been described as a landmark moment, after at least 64,964 people have been killed in the occupied Palestinian territories in almost two years of war.