Aid groups demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza

International organisations and aid agencies have called on for an immediate ceasefire to end a "haemorrhage of human lives" in Gaza, warning that the situation could quickly spiral out of control. They made their appeals at a conference in Paris on Thursday intended to coordinate aid and assess how to help people wounded in Gaza since Israel launched its brutal ground and air offensive in response to an attack by Hamas fighters on southern Israel on Oct. 7.