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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
"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
Humanitarian aid packages are parachuted into northern Gaza, seen from Israel. IMAGES
UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that Israel's military offensive on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for their unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, has created a "humanitarian hellscape" for civilians trapped in the besieged Palestinian territory. SOUNDBITE
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that "scattered measures" for Gaza aid are not enough after Israel told the UN it will allow a "meaningful increase" in aid. "It's not enough to have scattered measures -- we need a paradigm shift," Guterres tells reporters at the UN's New York headquarters. SOUNDBITE