Trump denounces Iran as 'terror regime behaving badly,' during UNGA address

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Hamas's October 7 massacre, before immediately denouncing Israel's reaction as "unlike anything [he had] ever seen before" during the opening statements at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

"We must not for a moment lose sight of the devastating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories," he said.

"Almost three years have passed since the heinous Hamas terror attack of October 7, but what followed was a large-scale offensive against Palestinians in Gaza, involving a scale of death and destruction unlike anything I have seen during my years as secretary-general," he stated.

" The International Court of Justice has issued legally binding provisional measures in the case titled, and I quote, ‘Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip,’” he continued.

“In an advisory opinion issued last year, the international court made clear that the UN must be allowed to fulfill its mandates in Gaza, and that our staff and humanitarian aid workers must be protected," Guterres said.

"All parties must comply with international law and the Court’s orders," he added.

"Meanwhile, violence, displacement, and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are trampling the path to peace and raising fears of ethnic cleansing," he said.

"We cannot allow the two-state solution to disappear before our eyes," Guterres added.