UN special rapporteurs report that Israel continues a campaign leading to crimes against humanity in Gaza RIA News.
According to experts of the world body, there is also a “risk of genocide against the Palestinian people”, given the statements of Israeli political leaders and their allies.
Before that, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs named Israel’s actions against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip constitute genocide.
On October 17, a rocket hit Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. The health facility was overcrowded at the time of the attack. Hundreds of patients suffered mostly life-threatening injuries, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. While Gaza officials blamed Israel for the explosion in the hospital, Israel also blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the unsuccessful rocket launch that hit the hospital.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were launched into Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The Israel Defense Forces intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. Israeli Air Force applied Hundreds of the group’s facilities in the Gaza Strip were attacked, and Israel’s National Security Council decided to cut off water, food, materials, electricity and fuel supplies to the region.
Previously in Russia in the name Possible date for the end of Israel’s war with Hamas.