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May 27. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, lamented this Monday the “horror” of Sunday’s attack on a displaced persons camp in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where 45 Palestinians died, including minors. old.
“The images from the camp are horrifying and do not indicate any apparent change in the methods and means of warfare used by Israel, which have already caused so many civilian deaths,” he said in a statement, adding that these attacks reveal “once there is literally no safe place in Gaza.
Turk “has taken note” that the Israeli Army has announced an investigation in this regard, although he has reiterated that an attack of these characteristics against an area “densely populated with civilians” would have “a totally predictable result.”
“It is crucial that such reviews (by the Army) lead to accountability and changes in policies and practices,” he stressed, also calling on Israel to cease its offensive on Rafah in compliance with the Court’s order. International Justice (ICJ).
Likewise, he has asked Palestinian armed groups to stop the “indiscriminate” launch of missiles against Israeli territory, as it violates international law. “They must also release all the hostages at the same time,” he added.
This Sunday, at least 45 people died in an Israeli bombing of a camp for displaced people in the Rafah region, events that have been condemned internationally. This incident occurs within the framework of the Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip that has already claimed the lives of more than 36,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians.
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