Hyderabad, Oct. 19 -- Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has accused the Israeli government of killing more than 74,000 people in Gaza and blocking humanitarian aid, in a video appeal for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

"They are not dead, they are murdered people. These are not numbers," the Spaniard said at the start of the video, released on Sunday, October 18, by UNRWA. "They are not collateral damage, they are girls and boys."

In the roughly three-minute message, Guardiola, 55, spoke about children in Gaza searching for their parents in the rubble and suffering from hunger. "We watch them lose everything before they've even had a chance to grow up," he said.

"We are living through a very dark time in our h...