{"id":192969,"date":"2014-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=192969"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:31:04","slug":"auto-insert-192969","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-192969\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen briefs the SecCo on the risk of escalation in Israel, Gaza &#8211; SG&#8217;s Spokesperson&#8217;s noon briefing (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<br \/>\nBY STEPHANE DUJARRIC , SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>THURSDAY, 10 JULY 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON RISK OF ESCALATION IN ISRAEL, GAZA<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General briefed the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/sc\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>Security Council<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;this morning on the recent situation in Israel and Gaza, in which more than 550 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza into Israel, while the Israel Defence Forces have launched more than 500 airstrikes on Gaza. He said that 88 Palestinians, many of them civilians, are reported to have been killed. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General warned that we face the risk of an all-out escalation in Israel and Gaza, with the threat of a ground offensive still palpable &#8212; and preventable only if Hamas stops firing rockets. 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