US president to meet Netanyahu in Israel but Jordan summit cancelled; protesters gather outside embassies in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq among others, after hundreds killed at al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist hospital
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Wednesday for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking at a forum of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in Beijing, he reiterated what he called “two urgent humanitarian appeals”.