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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
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for "silencing the guns" in Gaza "to honor the spirit of Ramadan", which started on the weekend. SOUNDBITE
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls his organization's Palestinian refugee agency the "backbone" of Gaza aid after several countries suspended funding over Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staffers participated in the October 7 attacks. SOUNDBITE
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says, following a Security Council vote demanding aid deliveries at scale, that Israel's offensive is the "real problem... creating massive obstacles" to humanitarian shipments. SOUNDBITE
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths says that he saw promising signs that the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip might be opened soon to allow aid in. "We're still negotiating, and with some promising signs at the moment, access through Kerem Shalom... that that may be able to open soon," Griffiths told a press conference in Geneva. IMAGES
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