The numbers are REAL PEOPLE and the level of innocent murders by Israel is beyond the comprehension of most ‘normal’ people – Mark
Geneva: The UN has condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel’s war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 per cent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.
In a fresh report, slammed by Israel, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) detailed a raft of violations of international law since Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack in Israel sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.
Many could amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly even “genocide”, it warned, demanding international efforts to prevent “atrocity crimes” and ensure accountability.
“Civilians in Gaza have borne the brunt of the attacks, including through the initial ‘complete siege’ of Gaza by Israeli forces,” the UN said.
“Conduct by Israeli forces has caused unprecedented levels of killings, death, injury, starvation, illness and disease.”
It pointed to “the Israeli government’s continuing unlawful failures to allow, facilitate and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and repeated mass displacement”.
But Israel’s mission to the UN in Geneva “categorically” rejected the report.
“Gaza is now a rubble-strewn landscape,” Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN rights office’s activities in the Palestinian territories, said. “Within this dystopia of destruction and devastation, those alive are left injured, displaced and starving.”
The report also found Hamas and other armed groups had committed widespread violations that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including seizing hostages, killings, torture and sexual violence. Those violations, it said, were especially committed in connection with the October 7, 2023 attack, which resulted in 1206 deaths.
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