United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the deadly attack in Kerman, Iran during an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020.
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00:00 The Secretary General strongly condemns the attack today on a memorial ceremony in Kerman
00:04 city in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which reportedly killed more than 100 people and
00:10 injured many more.
00:11 The Secretary General calls for those responsible to be held accountable.
00:16 And the Secretary General expresses his deep condolences to the bereaved families and the
00:20 people and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and he wishes the injured a speedy
00:26 recovery.
00:27 OCHO has warned that Gaza is a public health disaster in the making, and recent mass displacement
00:32 across southern Gaza is fueling disease outbreaks.
00:35 More than 400,000 cases of infectious diseases have been reported since October 7th, with
00:41 some 180,000 people suffering from upper respiratory infections.
00:46 There have also been more than 136,000 cases of diarrhea reported, half among children
00:51 under the age of five.
00:54 Humanitarian partners continue to address the critical lack of hygiene and safe drinking
00:57 water in Gaza, despite ongoing challenges to response efforts.
01:01 We and our humanitarian partners have been unable to deliver urgently needed, life-saving
01:06 humanitarian assistance north of Wadi Gaza for three days due to access delays and denials,
01:11 as well as active conflict.
01:13 This includes medicines that would have provided vital support to more than 100,000 people
01:18 for 30 days, as well as eight trucks of food for people who currently face catastrophic
01:22 and life-threatening food insecurity.
01:25 Humanitarian organizations are calling for urgent, safe, sustained, and unhindered humanitarian
01:29 access to areas north of Wadi Gaza, which has been severed from the south for more than