Updated On: 13 January, 2009 09:07 AM IST | | PTI
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Israel and the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas immediately stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip, saying "too many people have died."
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Israel and the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas immediately stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip, saying "too many people have died."
In his first press conference of the year yesterday, a day before he is due to leave on a week-long Middle East tour to press for a Gaza truce, Ban said: "The fighting must stop ... To both sides, I say: just stop now.