UN experts call on the international community to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
UN experts called for an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and to allow the humanitarian aid needed by the people of Gaza to be delivered without any obstacles.
The experts said in a statement yesterday, reported by Wafa Agency: “Many of us have sounded the alarm about the danger of a genocide in Gaza,” stressing that the international community must do everything in its power to immediately put an end to the genocide carried out by “Israel” against the Palestinian people.
The experts pointed out that the atrocities committed by “Israel” against the Palestinians since last October 7 in Gaza indicate genocide, and that the failure of the international system to prevent it must stop.
The experts pointed to the use of powerful weapons with inherently indiscriminate effects in Gaza, which leads to huge numbers of casualties and destruction of infrastructure.
The experts expressed “deep sorrow over the international community’s unwillingness to put more decisive pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire.”
They said that all of this is happening amid Israel’s tightening of its 17-year-long illegal siege of Gaza, which has left the Palestinians for weeks without food, water, medicine and fuel since the seventh of last month until now.
The experts stressed that “deliberate starvation amounts to a war crime.”
Regarding the statement of the Minister in the occupation government, Amichai Eliyahu, inciting genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the experts expressed “concern about the rhetoric of genocide and inhumanity,” warning that “Israel” has proven that it has the military capacity to implement such criminal intentions.
Among the experts who signed the statement were the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, and the Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal.
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