The “terrible events” that have taken place in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hours are incomprehensible, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said today, as quoted by France Presse.
Israel says it has lost 59 soldiers since the start of its offensive in Gaza
“The killing of so many people in schools turned into shelters, the fleeing of hundreds of people from Ash Shifa hospital for their lives, while against this background thousands of people continue to be displaced in southern Gaza, these are all actions that are contrary to the basic protection that peaceful citizens should receive according to international law,” he stressed in a press release.
At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to evacuate the last remaining patients in “Ash Shifa” – the largest medical facility in Gaza, which, according to the WHO, has become a “death zone”.
Yesterday, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which is run by the United Nations, killed 80 people, including at least 50 people in a school where they were housed. displaced children.
Turk described the footage of the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the UN-run al-Fahura school in Jabaliya refugee camp as “horrific” and “clearly showing a large number of seriously injured and dead women, children and men”.
According to Turk, in the last 48 hours, at least three more schools housing displaced people have been attacked.
“It is extremely difficult to see the pain, horror and fear on the faces of children, women and men,” he pointed out.
The conflict was sparked by a Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, the scale of which is unprecedented in Israel’s history. According to the authorities, 1,200 people were killed there, the vast majority of them civilians.
In response, Israel vowed to “destroy” the Islamist movement, subjecting the small Palestinian enclave to merciless shelling, and on October 27, Israel launched a ground operation there, according to AFP.
Source: Vladimir Sahatchiev, BTA
2023-11-19 17:55:53
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