The UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed his horror at the latest events in the Gaza Strip. The events of the last 48 hours are “beyond imagination”, Türk said today.
In attacks on schools converted into emergency shelters, people would be killed, hundreds would be forced to flee Al-Shifa hospital, while hundreds of thousands would be displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip. These are events that violate the basic protection “that should be afforded to civilians under international law”, said the Human Rights Commissioner.
Call for a ceasefire
Yesterday, according to the radical Islamic group Hamas, “at least 50 people” were killed in an Israeli attack on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school, which is used as accommodation for refugees, in the Jabalya refugee settlement, in northern Gaza. Range. According to Türk, at least three more schools with refugees were attacked within 48 hours.
Humanity must come first, the UN Human Rights Commissioner emphasized and underlined the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was also horrified by the attacks on UN schools in the Gaza Strip: he was “deeply shocked” that two schools were hit in less than 24 hours, killing or injuring dozens of people. The victims were many women and children who sought protection at UN facilities. “I reiterate that our facilities are inviolable,” said Guterres. He again called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.