Nothing justifies what Israel has done in Gaza: UN expert
A United Nations human rights expert underscores multiple instances of breach of the international law by the Israeli regime, which has brought the Gaza Strip under more than three months of a genocidal war.
"Nothing justifies what Israel has done," Francesca Albanese, who is the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday, addressing a Madrid news conference.
"Israel has done a number of things that are highly illegal, highly unlawful," she said.
The regime, the expert noted, is obliged to respect the international humanitarian law "to protect people who are not actively involved in combat. Civilians, prisoners of war, and the sick and wounded."
"Instead what has happened is over 100 days of relentless bombing -- the first two weeks using 6,000 bombs per week, bombs of 2,000 pounds, in highly crowded area." she said.
"Most hospitals have been made dysfunctional. A good number of them, the major ones, have been closed, bombed or taken over by the army," Albanese said, warning, "People are dying now not only because of the bombs but because there is not sufficient health infrastructure to cure them of wounds."
"The number of kids who get amputated every day is shocking, one or two limbs. During the first two months of this [war], 1,000 kids were amputated without anesthesia. It is a monstrosity," she added.
The Israeli regime began the war on October 7, following an operation staged by Gaza's resistance movements, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm. Tel Aviv has simultaneously been exercising an all-out siege against the Palestinian territory, preventing the flow of water, food, electricity, fuel, and medicine into the coastal sliver.
At least 24,620 Palestinians, around 70 percent of whom are women, children, and adolescents, have been killed in the brutal onslaught so far.
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