UN human rights experts described the reports on “forced disappearances of hungry Palestinians” as “atrocious crime”. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) denied that it happens.
Experts Human Rights of the UN They described this Thursday as an “atrocious crime” reports on “forced disappearances of hungry Palestinians” that sought food in distribution sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The seven independent experts said, in a joint statement, to have received information that several people, including a child, disappeared after attending these Help sites in Rafah.
The Israeli army would be “directly involved in the forced disappearances of people seeking assistance,” added experts mandated by the UN Human Rights Councilalthough they do not speak on behalf of the organization, AFP cited.
The UN denounced “forced disappearances” in Gaza
“The reports of forced disappearances directed against hungry civilians who seek to exercise their fundamental right to feed They are not only shocking, but they are equivalent to torture“They said.
In that line, they added that the use of “food as a tool to carry out selective and mass disappearances must cease immediately.” The GHF declared that there are no evidence of forced disappearances In their help sites in the Palestinian territories, after the testimony of the experts.
“We work in a war zone where serious accusations weigh against all the parties that operate outside our sites, but within the GHF facilities there is no evidence of forced disappearances,” the foundation said in a statement to AFP.
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The Gaza Strip reached a “breakdown”the director of the World Food Program (PMA), Cindy McCainafter a visit to the place.
“I met children who starve and receive treatment for serious malnutrition, and I saw photos of them when they were healthy. They are unrecognizable,” he said cited in a statement and added that “despair is at its maximum point.”
UN workers press to qualify the situation in Gaza as genocide
Hundreds of staff members of the United Nations Human Nations Office for Human Rights (ACNUD) They asked its director Volker Turk that explicitly defines Gaza’s war as a developing genocide.
The order appears in a letter to which Reuters had access. The text details that the personnel consider that “The legal criteria of genocide are fulfilled in the almost two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza “citing the scale, scope and nature of the documented violations there.
“ACNUDH has the firm legal and moral responsibility to denounce the acts of genocide,” says the letter signed by the Personnel Committee on behalf of more than 500 employees. He added that “Do not report a genocide ongoing undercover the credibility of the UN and of the human rights system itself ”.
At the moment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel He did not respond, in addition to having rejected the accusations of genocide in Gaza.
Source: Ambito
