A Palestinian child carrying food cries as people gather for a mass fast-breaking iftar meal in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 15, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said nine people including journalists were killed in Israeli strikes on March 15. – AFP
GENEVA (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres voiced shock on Tuesday (March 18) after hundreds were killed in the most intense Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took effect in January.
"The secretary-general is shocked by the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza," UN spokesman Rolando Gomez told a press briefing in Geneva.
