The “horrible events” of the last 48 hours in Gaza “go beyond human understanding,” said this Sunday the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
“The deaths of so many people in schools converted into shelters, hundreds of people fleeing al-Shifa hospital to save their lives, while thousands more continue to be displaced in southern Gaza, are actions that go against basic protections that international law must guarantee. subsidy to civilians,” Türk warned in a statement.
These statements come at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to remove the last patients from Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, which it considers has become a “death zone.” .
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas also said Saturday that Israeli attacks on the U.N.-run Jabaliya refugee camp in the territory’s north killed more than 80 people, including at least 50 at a school housing people displaced.
The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, considered “horrible” the images presented of the Israeli attack on the Al Fakhoura school, managed by the UN, in the Jabaliya camp, which “clearly show a large number of women, children and men seriously injured or killed.”
According to Türk, at least three other schools housing displaced people have been attacked in the last 48 hours.
“The pain, horror and fear on the faces of children, women and men are unbearable,” he said.
“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 against 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, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure in Gaza and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water. . supplies, fuel and electricity.
Since October 7, according to Israeli authorities, 1,200 people have died, most of them civilians, in the context of this conflict.
On the other hand, Israeli bombings from air, land and sea caused between 16,000 and 12,000 deaths, mostly civilians, in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas data.
The UN said more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million people were displaced by the war, with most fleeing south.
Source: TSF
