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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is "deeply distressed" by Israel´s announcement of a "complete siege" on the Gaza Strip. 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
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 arrives in El-Arish airport in Egypt, to visit the border with Gaza after Israel vowed to send its troops to fight Hamas in the nearby city of Rafah, even without United States support. IMAGES
Vedant Patel, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, says that Israel should let the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA into Gaza, after he was denied entry. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).