Israel has called on UN secretary general António Guterres to resign after Guterres said that the“appalling attacks” by Hamas against Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”. The attack on Israel did not happen “in a vacuum” and followed “56 years of suffocating occupation” for the Palestinian people by Israel, he said. Guterres warned that the situation in the Middle East is getting more dire by the hour. In remarks made at a UN security council meeting Tuesday in New York, Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire and warned that conflict could spill out...