The United Nations experts demanded an action to avoid the “annihilation” of the Palestinians in Gaza, after the rescuers said that the Israeli strikes across the territory killed dozens of people.
An expanded offensive provided by the Israeli army aroused an international condemnation, after UN agencies previously warned a humanitarian disaster on Palestinian territory, already devastated by 19 months of war.
More than 20 independent experts mandated by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that the world had faced an “austere decision” to “remain passive and see the massacre of innocent people or to participate in the development of a fair resolution”.
Experts have implored the international community to avoid “moral abysses in which we descend”.
Israel’s wider offensive, approved by his government in the midst of a two -month -old aid blockade on Gaza, would include the moving of its residents, said the army. The plan proposes to grasp Gaza, to cling to the captured territories, to force the Palestinians in force in the south of Gaza and to take control of the aid distribution as well as private security companies.
French President Emmanuel Macron called on the situation in Gaza on Wednesday “the most critical we have ever seen”.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Madrid would present a draft resolution at the United Nations General Assembly to “propose urgent measures to stop the murder of innocent civilians and ensure humanitarian aid” in Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Parliament that the situation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank was “increasingly intolerable”.
The head of the European Union foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said that Brussels had made an offer to Israel “to distribute humanitarian aid if they did not trust the other actors there”.
On Thursday, more than a dozen Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza after 100 people were killed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, a significant number of people killed and injured in Gaza City were children, rescuers said.
Meanwhile, the World Central Kitchen (WCK), which directed one of the last bakeries still operating in Gaza, announced that it no longer had supplies to cook meals or make bread in Gaza.
“Additional foods and equipment is ready to be shipped to the border of Jordan and Egypt. Our vital work cannot continue without the authorization of Israel so that this aid between,” the charity said in a statement.
