You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, the 25th of October.

Israel is criticized over its airstrikes on Gaza following the Hamas

massacre. It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a

vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of

suffocating occupation. But the Israeli foreign minister hits back angrily at

the UN chief. Mr Secretary General, in what world do you live?

Definitely this is not our world.

However, the US is now calling for a humanitarian pause, so will Israel agree?

Also in the podcast, 33 US states sue Meta.

And a judge in Canada approves billions of dollars in compensation for indigenous families

who suffer discrimination in the child welfare system. Israel is coming under increased diplomatic pressure over its response to the Hamas massacre of more than 1,400 people two and a half weeks ago.

In a heated exchange at the UN Security Council, Israel's ambassador demanded that the

UN Chief Antonio Guterresh resign after he said the attacks by Hamas didn't happen in a vacuum.

From UN headquarters in New York his Nedetaufique.

UN officials gave a sobering briefing on the plight of 2 million

Palestinians in Gaza facing non-stop Israeli airstrikes and a humanitarian

catastrophe and the more than 200 hostages held by Hamas.

The first to speak was the organization's head,

the Secretary General Antonio Guterresch,

who said he was deeply concerned

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