The “terrible events” of the past 48 hours in Gaza “are beyond human comprehension,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Sunday.
“The deaths of so many people in schools turned shelters, hundreds of people fleeing Al-Shifa Hospital to save their lives, while thousands of others remain displaced in southern Gaza, are actions that go against the basic protections that international law must provide. subsidy to citizens”, Turk warned in a statement.
These statements come as the World Health Organization (WHO) tries to move the last patients out of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, which it says has become a “death zone.”
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas also said on Saturday that Israeli attacks on the UN-run Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the territory have killed more than 80 people, including at least 50 in a school housing displaced people.
The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, said the images of the Israeli attack on the UN-run Al-Fakhoura school in the Jabaliya camp were “appalling”, showing “clearly a large number of women, children and men is visible’. seriously injured or killed.”
According to Türk, at least three other schools housing displaced people have been attacked in the past 48 hours.
‘The pain, horror and fear on the faces of children, women and men are too great to bear’he claimed.
“Humanity must come first,” he continued, underscoring the absolute need for a ceasefire “now.”
On October 7, the Islamist movement Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the EU and the United States, by bombing several of the group’s infrastructure facilities in Gaza and imposing a total siege of the territory, where the water supply is shut off. supplies, fuel and electricity.
According to Israeli authorities, 1,200 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict since October 7.
On the other hand, Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea caused between 16,000 and 12,000 deaths, mostly civilians, in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas data.
The UN indicated that more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million residents had been displaced by the war, with the majority fleeing south.
Source: DN
