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May 16, 2021, 7 tweets

#BREAKING UN chief, opening Mideast session, warns of 'uncontainable' crisis

#UPDATE UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday pleaded for an immediate end to deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence, warning a Security Council meeting that the fighting could plunge the region into an "uncontainable" crisis
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#VIDEO Israeli strikes killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Sunday, the worst daily death toll yet in the almost week-long clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid global alarm at the escalating conflict
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#VIDEO UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "dismayed" by civilian casualties in Gaza and "deeply disturbed" by Israel's strike on the tower housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus.

Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief speaks after the strike
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#BREAKING Israeli PM says Gaza building housing media was 'perfectly legitimate target'

#UPDATE Benjamin Netanyahu alleges the tower also hosted a Palestinian "terrorist" intelligence office.

"So it is a perfectly legitimate target. I can tell you that we took every precaution to make sure that there were no civilian injuries, in fact, no deaths," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended the strike on the Gaza tower that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, alleging it also hosted a Palestinian "terrorist" intelligence office u.afp.com/Ue3V

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