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#un

On the morning of 6 August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, a flash of light enveloped the sky so brightly that a 13-year-old boy, Oiwa Kohei, thought the Sun had fallen to Earth and landed in his mother's flower beds.

We should have one place in the world where everyone can talk where China, Russia, Europe and the developing world can come together and resolve conflicts.

As we speak, aid is disappearing rapidly, putting the lives of nearly a million refugees at risk. We urgently need international support to avert catastrophe.

Israel will facilitate the entry of "dozens of aid trucks" from UN agencies in the Gaza Strip on a daily basis in the coming days.

Today, MSF's hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan, was bombed. The pharmacy was destroyed. All medical supplies lost. There are reports of people killed and injured. This is the only functional hospital in the area.

Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.

Elinor Hammarskjold stated that Israel's unilateral rejection of UN agencies' rights threatens the organization's integrity and its ability to serve its member states.

We very much appeal to both the governments... to exercise maximum restraint, and to ensure that the situation and the developments we've seen do not deteriorate any further.