"Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children" : UN Secretary-General

At least 10,022 people killed in Gaza....

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said Gaza is "becoming a graveyard for children", CNN reported.

Guterres told reporters in New York: "The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity." He added that the need for a ceasefire is becoming "more urgent with every passing hour."

"The parties to the conflict--and, indeed, the international community--face an immediate and fundamental responsibility: to stop this inhuman collective suffering and dramatically expand humanitarian aid to Gaza," he said.

Since the Israel-Hamas war began a month ago the UN chief said, 89 staff members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been killed.

UNRWA on Tuesday said that at least 26 members had been injured.

The UN Secretary-General's comments come four weeks after Israel declared war on Hamas, following the terrorist organisation's October 7 attack that killed 1,400 people in Israel and saw about 240 others kidnapped.

Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent remarks that Israel would have overall security responsibility in Gaza for an indefinite period following the war. However, the Israeli government has not provided detailed plans for governing Gaza should Hamas be eliminated.

The situation in Gaza post-war remains uncertain, with concerns about how Israel plans to manage it. The latest violence has caused more than 1,400 deaths in Israel and at least 10,022 in Gaza as of November 6, according to authorities on both sides.

"I think Israel will for an indefinite period have security responsibility," Netanyahu told. “We've seen what happens when we don't have that... security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine.”