In comments that came before Hamas’s announcement that it had accepted a truce proposal, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered his most damning criticism of Israel yet in response to Israel’s apparent plan to invade Rafah, where the majority of Palestinians in Gaza are sheltering.
“Gazans continue to be hit with bombs, disease, and even famine. And today, they have been told that they must relocate yet again as Israeli military operations into Rafah scale up,” Volker Turk said.
“This is inhumane. It runs contrary to the basic principles of international humanitarian and human rights laws, which have the effective protection of civilians as their overriding concern.”
He said lessons from seven months of war on Gaza show that an assault on Rafah will only kill more people, adding, “Enough of the killing”.
“Those that elect to flout international humanitarian law and international human rights law must be held to account.”
Source: AlJazeera
