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## Video: U.N. Secretary-General Calls for Cease-fire Talks and Investigation Into Allegations of Mass Killings in Gaza

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_Published 2024-04-30. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war._


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A military assault on ruffled being unbearable escalation killing thousands more civilians and forcing thousands to flee. It will have a devastating impact on Palestinians in Gaza with serious repercussions on the occupied West Bank and across the wider region. A major obstacle to Distributing Gail across galaxies that I have security for humanitarians of the people we serve. Men taking convoys with personnel and people needs must not be targets. We all can a delivery by Aaron see but there is no alternative to the massive use of land routes. I can call on these Ram your phone. It is to 11 to see if you take safe happy than any impeding access for humanitarian.

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Enough alone / 390 bodies are reportedly being exhumed. There are competing narratives around several of these mess Graves including cities with a lawfully killed. It is imperative that independent International investigators with forensic expertise allowed immediate access to the site of his mess Graves establish the precise circumstances under which ended the Palestinians lost their lives and their bodies or three buttons.

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