@guardian: The Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza has been just as devastating as in the north, said UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths, creating “apocalyptic” conditions and ending any possibility of meaningful humanitarian operations. “What we’re saying today is: that’s enough now. It has to stop,” Griffiths said in an interview with the Guardian on Tuesday. Since the temporary ceasefire collapsed nearly a week ago, Israeli forces and Hamas have been fighting house-to-house battles along the length of the Gaza Strip, with devastating consequences for the civilian population. Gaza's hospitals have reported many civilians dead and injured, with medical supplies dwindling. The UN chief, António Guterres, on Wednesday invoked the rarely used Article 99 of the UN Charter “for the first time in my tenure as secretary general’, which says he may inform the council of matters he believes threaten international peace. He is expected to address the council to press for a ceasefire. But Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, has reacted to the move, saying the secretary general invoked Article 99 to pressure Israel, accusing the UN chief of “a new moral low” and “bias against Israel”. Follow the latest on this story by heading to the link in bio.

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