Rhino: Agencies – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on all parties involved in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to reach an agreement on a ceasefire plan proposed by US President Joe Biden.

‘I welcome the peace initiative recently proposed by President Biden and urge all parties to seize this opportunity and reach an agreement,’ Guterres told a conference on emergency aid in Jordan, a day after the UN Security Council endorsed the proposed plan on Monday.

Describing conditions in Gaza as ‘deplorable’, Guterres said the rapid pace and scale of death and killing there was the worst he had seen since taking over as UN Secretary-General in 2017.