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US President Donald Trump says his Middle East peace plan offers "a realistic two-state solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israel's security." SOUNDBITE
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
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday paints a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel could devolve into a "full-scale regional conflict." 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
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expresses serious concern over reports that Israel is using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. Guterres tells reporters that he is "deeply troubled by reports that the Israeli military's bombing campaign includes Artificial Intelligence as a tool in the identification of targets, particularly in densely populated residential areas, resulting in a high level of civilian casualties." "No part of life and death decisions which impact entire families should be delegated to the cold calculation of algorithms," he adds. SOUNDBITE