The UN Security Council is “complicit in the ongoing slaughter” in the Gaza Strip and must vote to “lift the siege”, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said, AFP reports.

MSF said the council must demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire and ensure unrestricted aid into the Palestinian territory.

“To date, the inaction of the United Nations Security Council and vetoes from member states, particularly the United States, make them complicit in the ongoing slaughter; this inaction has given license to the mass killing of men, women and children,” MSF said in a statement.

Guterres deployed the rarely used Article 99 of the UN Charter, under which he can bring to the council’s attention “any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security”.

“History will judge the delay in ending this slaughter; basic humanity demands action,” MSF said.

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