"I am greatly surprised by the continued escalation of the conflict in the Middle East," Guterres said in a statement.
"All parties, including Palestinian Gaza and Lebanon, must stop military action and do their utmost to prevent a full-scale regional war," he said.
"We urgently reiterate the return to the path of diplomacy," he said.
On the 1st, Israel launched a large-scale retaliatory strike on Iran, as it had predicted, 25 days after it was attacked by 200 ballistic missiles from Iran.
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