The deepening crisis in Gaza echoed through the halls of the United Nations on Tuesday, as the Security Council grappled with alarming reports of civilian suffering and rising regional tensions, while leaders from Jordan to Qatar took the General Assembly floor to demand urgent global action.

The Security Council on Tuesday heard a warning from Secretary-General António Guterres on the war in Ukraine, while in the General Assembly, leaders from Lithuania, France and Poland called for stronger international action against aggression.

Speaking at a high-level briefing on Ukraine on Tuesday, the UN Secretary General António Guterres told the Security Council that the international community cannot afford to lose “fragile” diplomatic momentum over ending the war with Russia.

Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to rally for greater support for Haiti.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday that the crisis in Gaza has become “one of the darkest chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” with worsening suffering and deepening regional instability.

United States President Donald Trump told world leaders gathered at the UN on Tuesday that during a seven-month period he had ended “seven unendable” wars, but said the global body had offered little help.

The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Tuesday it’s important not to lose the “fragile diplomatic momentum” between Ukraine and Russia – and international mediators – over ending the war. He was briefing ambassadors in back-to-back meetings where calling for ceasefire in Gaza, he said the “day after” war ends there, must be anchored in international law, rejecting any “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. Our live meetings coverage is below; UN News app users can click here.

The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has confirmed that between 11 and 16 September, 12 of its premises in Gaza City were hit directly or indirectly, amid intensifying Israeli military activity there.

The UN symbolises the highest expression of the aspiration for peace and prosperity but the ideals that inspired its founding 80 years ago are under threat as never before, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva told the General Assembly on Tuesday.

As the UN marks its 80th anniversary, Member States must show the people of the world why the organization matters and uphold its founding principles in the decades ahead, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.