Israel-Gaza latest: Israel rejects calls for ceasefire and says UN chief should resign - as Gaza officials say number killed in airstrikes now 5,700

Israel rejected calls from the international community for a ceasefire, while vowing again to destroy Hamas.The United Nations, the Palestinians and many other countries made the request at a high-level UN meeting today, but Israel's foreign minister said it was the country's 'right to destroy Hamas'. Eli Cohen also dismissed calls for 'proportionality' in the country's response to Hamas's surprise attacks on Israel on 7 October.

'Tell me, what is a proportionate response for killing of babies, for rape women and burn them, for beheading a child?' he asked.'How can you agree to a ceasefire with someone who swore to kill and destroy your own existence?'He told the UN Security Council that the proportionate response to the massacre was 'a total destruction to the last one of the Hamas', calling the extremist group 'the new Nazis'.'It is not only Israel's right to destroy Hamas.

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