Gaza fighting rages as UN chief decries 'horror and starvation'
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00:00 In Rafah, the night was interrupted again by airstrikes that destroyed residential buildings.
00:08 This border city is the place where Israel had told Palestinians to find refuge.
00:14 More than one million people came here.
00:16 Hassan Zanoun and his family were sleeping when their building collapsed.
00:22 "They were all displaced.
00:25 Most of the people in this region are displaced people, civilians.
00:29 They told us we were in a safe zone."
00:31 On Sunday again, families mourned their loved ones in the Srafa hospital, caressing their
00:37 body bags one last time.
00:41 Israel says it's hoping to destroy Hamas' military capabilities to avert new attacks
00:46 against its territory to press for the release of the hostages.
00:51 But survivors say civilians are the ones getting killed.
00:55 "We have nothing to do with anything.
00:59 We're civilians, that's all.
01:01 They want to fight with Hamas, let them fight Hamas.
01:04 Let them kill its members.
01:06 As for us, the displaced people, we have nothing to do with it."
01:11 After visiting the Egyptian side of the Gaza border, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
01:17 called again to stop the violence, urging world powers to act at once.
01:23 "Nothing justifies the abhorrent October 7 Hamas attacks and hostage taking in Israel.
01:32 But nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people."
01:38 The Security Council will examine a new resolution on a ceasefire on Monday, after previous ones
01:44 were blocked by vetoes.
01:47 If this one passes, pressure would increase on Israel to suspend its strikes.