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The World Health Organization calls for a humanitarian corridor to be established into and out of the Gaza Strip, which has been placed under total siege by Israel. "WHO is calling for an end to the violence... a humanitarian corridor is needed to reach people with critical medical supplies," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic tells a press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for an immediate halt to hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the return of hostages and an increase in aid to the beseiged Palestinian territory, in a video address to an international donors' conference in Kuwait. SOUNDBITE
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip "only have enough fuel to run health services...for three more days" says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who blames closed border crossings for the shortage. "Fuel that we expected to be allowed in today has not been allowed in" he says, explaining that, if supplies are not able to get into Gaza, the WHO "cannot sustain our life-saving support." SOUNDBITE
The Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings, whose closure by Israel is cutting off aid to Gaza, must be reopened "immediately", urges UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. SOUNDBITE
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
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