UN demands ceasefire as reported Gaza deaths top 10,000

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UN leaders called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza as reported deaths there passed 10,000 people.   Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the Gaza Strip was becoming "a graveyard for children."   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children.

00:02 UN leaders demanded a humanitarian ceasefire on Monday,

00:05 as Israel faced mounting pressure over civilian deaths nearly a month into the Gaza war.

00:11 More than 10,000 people have now been killed in Israeli strikes,

00:16 according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

00:20 More than 4,000 of them are said to be children.

00:25 Yet more wounded youngsters were shown being carried into the Ashifa hospital in Gaza City.

00:30 In this video obtained by Reuters,

00:34 they were reportedly injured in a strike on the Ashati refugee camp.

00:38 But Israel, which says its forces now encircle Gaza City,

00:43 is rebuffing mounting international pressure for a ceasefire.

00:47 It insists hostages taken by Hamas during their rampage in southern Israel on October 7,

00:53 which killed 1,400 people, should be released first.

00:57 18 heads of UN agencies issued a statement saying the war must stop.

01:02 This was Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

01:05 "The protection of civilians must be paramount.

01:09 I'm deeply concerned about clear violations of international humanitarian law

01:15 that we are witnessing.

01:16 And the unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire

01:22 more urgent with every passing hour."

01:25 This man, who gave his name only as Mohammed,

01:29 described surviving a strike on Deir al-Bala.

01:31 "They pulled us from the rubble," he says.

01:33 But children, girls and boys were martyred.

01:36 A Reuters journalist in Gaza said an overnight bombardment by air, ground and sea

01:41 was one of the most intense since Israel began its offensive.

01:44 On average, a child is killed and two are injured every 10 minutes in Gaza.

01:52 According to the UN Relief Agency for Palestinians.

01:54 Its shelters in the south of the Strip are too crowded to take new arrivals,

01:59 so displaced people are sleeping in the streets.

02:02 In Israel, anger with politicians over the hostages taken by Hamas

02:08 has grown in the past month.

02:10 "Now, now, now,"

02:13 chant activists outside the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, in Jerusalem,

02:18 demanding their return.

02:20 They include David Goldstein from the Kafar Azzer community,

02:23 ransacked by the Hamas fighters.

02:25 "My feeling is that they are not doing enough.

02:29 Probably they are doing more politics than any effort to bring back the kidnaps."

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