10/11/2024–|Last updated: 10/11/202401:23 PM (Mecca time)
United Nations human rights experts considered that the Gaza Strip is experiencing the harshest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, in light of the continued Israeli aggression against the Strip for more than a year.
They stressed that the sector “has become a barren land filled with rubble and human remains.”
Experts pointed out that the Gaza war witnessed genocide, ethnic cleansing, and collective punishment of Palestinians, and that Israeli bombs did not spare anyone, and entire families were annihilated and generations erased.
They considered that the failure to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and hold accountable for the crimes committed there led to the expansion of the war and igniting Lebanon with violence.
The experts’ statement came a day after revealing the findings of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, which confirmed that Israel is deliberately seeking to destroy the health care system in the Gaza Strip and is mistreating Palestinian prisoners.
The committee added that Israel committed “war crimes and a crime against humanity of genocide through sustained and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities.”
The committee accused Israeli forces of deliberately killing and torturing medical workers, targeting medical vehicles, and obstructing permits allowing patients to leave the besieged Gaza Strip.
She explained that more than 10,000 patients in need of urgent medical evacuation have been prevented from leaving Gaza since the closure of the Rafah land crossing last May.
Israel does not cooperate with the investigation, which it says is biased against it, and the investigation committee accused Israel of obstructing its work and preventing investigators from accessing its lands and the Palestinian territories.
Sometimes, evidence collected by such UN-mandated committees formed the basis of war crimes trials and could be used by the International Criminal Court.