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European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a press conference in Capri, Italy, ahead of the Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting in which he says that the Western countries "have to take quicker decisions in order to support Ukraine more because we cannot afford Putin's victory in Ukraine." SOUNDBITE
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls his organization's Palestinian refugee agency the "backbone" of Gaza aid after several countries suspended funding over Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staffers participated in the October 7 attacks. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization calls for a humanitarian corridor to be established into and out of the Gaza Strip, which has been placed under total siege by Israel. "WHO is calling for an end to the violence... a humanitarian corridor is needed to reach people with critical medical supplies," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic tells a press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip "only have enough fuel to run health services...for three more days" says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who blames closed border crossings for the shortage. "Fuel that we expected to be allowed in today has not been allowed in" he says, explaining that, if supplies are not able to get into Gaza, the WHO "cannot sustain our life-saving support." SOUNDBITE
The US military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon says. SOUNDBITE
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