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The EU's top foreign policy official Josep Borrell calls for an extension of the truce in the Gaza Strip, which is due to end on Tuesday. "The pause should be extended to make it sustainable and long lasting while working for a political solution," he says on Monday, at the start of a meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona. The pause in fighting is the first since the October 7 attack in which Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 240 hostages. Israel's response, a sustained air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip, has killed nearly 15,000 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, addressing the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, urges an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" to bring relief to civilians in Gaza. SOUNDBITE
EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg, with Israel's conflict with Hamas at the top of the agenda. EU foreign police chief Josep Borrell urged faster aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip, saying that the few dozen trucks of humanitarian aid that had been allowed into the enclave from Egypt were not enough. Borrell added that the bloc was debating calling for a humanitarian pause in the conflict. IMAGES
Ten children in Gaza are "losing one leg or two legs" every day, says Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, as he delivers a press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not turn Lebanon into "another Gaza." SOUNDBITE
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