 And staying with the Middle East crisis, the United Nations is urgently working to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. And UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened by the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children from Israeli extracts in Gaza and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza. Guterres General is gravely concerned by the serious escalations in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, including the latest escalations in Gaza, which add to the heightened tensions and violence in occupied East Jerusalem. He is deeply saddened to learn of the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza. The Secretary-General's thoughts are with the families of the victims. Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force. The indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centers is unacceptable. This spiralling escalation must cease immediately. The United Nations is working with all relevant parties to de-escalate the situation urgently.