Volker Türk says ‘we must stop the clock on this madness’
The UN high commissioner for human rights has called the escalation of Israeli attacks in Gaza and the aid blockade as “tantamount to ethnic cleansing” and has pleaded for global action.
In a statement on Friday, Volker Türk said:
This latest barrage of bombs … and the denial of humanitarian assistance underline that there appears to be a push for a permanent demographic shift in Gaza that is in defiance of international law and is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
Hospitals are protected at all times – and are even more indispensable during war.
The killing of patients or of people visiting their wounded or sick loved ones, or of emergency workers or other civilians just seeking shelter, is as tragic as it is abhorrent. These attacks must cease.
Which should we believe?
On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing. Continue reading...
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