11/6/2024–|Last updated: 11/6/202402:16 PM (Mecca time)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed shock, which it described as severe, at the repercussions on civilians as a result of the operation carried out by the Israeli army to recover 4 detainees in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The UN Commission said that the killing of civilians in Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli operation, as well as the holding of hostages by what it described as “armed men” in densely populated areas, are practices that may amount to war crimes.
“Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and injured, many of them civilians,” said UNHCR spokesman Jeremy Lawrence.
He criticized what he described as “armed groups” that hold hostages in densely populated areas and “endanger the lives of Palestinian civilians,” as he put it.
He said that the actions of both parties (Israel and the Palestinian resistance) “may amount to war crimes.”
The massacre committed by the Israeli occupation last Saturday resulted in the martyrdom of 274 Palestinians, including 64 children, 57 women, and 37 elderly people.
The number of people injured in the massacre reached 698, including 153 children, 161 women, and 54 elderly people, and the rest were civilians who were in the Nuseirat market and its surroundings and in the neighboring homes that were bombed by the occupation.