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UN rights chief sounds alarm on ‘unconscionable’ suffering in Gaza

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 1:47 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 18 June 2024 1:47 PM ]

A Palestinian boy sits as people search the rubble of a house destroyed in overnight Israeli strikes in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 18, 2024. (AFP)

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk raised the alarm on “unconscionable death and suffering” of Palestinians under Israel’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip.

In a session of the UN Human Rights Council, Turk decried the regime’s escalating attacks in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“Israel's relentless strikes in Gaza are causing immense suffering and widespread destruction, and the arbitrary denial and obstruction of humanitarian aid have continued.”

Turk said, he was "appalled by the disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law.”

In the occupied West Bank, he said, "Israel continues to detain arbitrarily thousands of Palestinians. This must not continue."

“The situation in the West Bank is dramatically deteriorating.”

Israel committed 3,300 massacres in Gaza since Oct.: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) says the Israeli regime has committed over 3,300 massacres in the coastal sliver since October.

According to Turk, 528 Palestinians, 133 of them children, were killed by Israeli military forces or settlers in the West Bank since October.

He had warned earlier that people in the West Bank were being “subjected to day after day of unprecedented bloodshed.”

In the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military forces have killed more than 37,370 people since October, according to Palestinian health authorities, who believe that thousands more remain unaccounted for — either missing under the rubble, buried hastily in side streets or decomposing in areas that can't be reached.

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