UN Chief: 'We Must Not Look Away' From Gaza 'Catastrophe'

united nations - The U.N. secretary-general called Wednesday for Israel and Hamas to prolong a temporary truce, saying a "true humanitarian cease-fire" is needed in the eight-week-old war.

"The people of Gaza are in the midst of an epic humanitarian catastrophe before the eyes of the world," Antonio Guterres told a ministerial-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation. "We must not look away."