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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Public order in Gaza likely to ‘completely break down’ soon, claims UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the United Nations headquarters ahead of the COP28 meeting in New York, November 29, 2023. (Andrea RENAULT / AFP)
The head of the UN warns that he expects “public order to completely break down soon, due to the desperate conditions” in Gaza, given Israeli bombardment targeting the Hamas terror group.
The humanitarian conditions during the war are “fast deteriorating into a catastrophe, with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a letter to the president of the Security Council.
“Such an outcome must be avoided at all costs,” he says in the letter.
