“What we are witnessing in Gaza is horrendous,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells AFP as Israel threatened “unprecedented force” in its ongoing assault on Gaza City.

“It is the worst level of death and destruction that I’ve seen my time as Secretary-General, probably my life and the suffering of the Palestinian people cannot be described – famine, total lack of effective health care, people living without adequate shelters in huge concentration areas,” he said.