{"id":11385,"date":"2023-11-09T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/un-rights-chief-says-both-israel-and-hamas-have-committed-war-crimes\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:01:32","slug":"un-rights-chief-says-both-israel-and-hamas-have-committed-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/un-rights-chief-says-both-israel-and-hamas-have-committed-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes in the past month, the United Nations human rights chief said, as thousands of Palestinians\u00a0fled south\u00a0amid Israel\u2019s intensifying offensive against the Islamist militant group.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on October 7 were heinous, brutal and shocking, they were\u00a0war\u00a0crimes \u2013 as is the continued holding of hostages,\u201d said Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to a\u00a0war\u00a0crime, as does the unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7 after\u00a0militants\u00a0killed 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped about 240 others, according to the Israel\u00a0Defense Forces (IDF).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The ensuing Israeli assault on Gaza\u00a0has plunged the strip into\u00a0crisis, with mass displacement and severe shortages of food, water, fuel\u00a0and medical supplies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The IDF\u00a0has\u00a0repeatedly called on civilians to move to the southern half of the strip\u00a0to avoid the fighting, and has opened daily evacuation corridors to allow them to do so,\u00a0as it intensifies attacks on Hamas in Gaza City and northern Gaza, saying it would strike the militants \u201cwherever necessary.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      That has caused\u00a0a growing exodus\u00a0in the past week of Palestinians fleeing south; on Wednesday thousands of people, including women, children\u00a0and the elderly, traveled miles on foot along\u00a0the<strong> <\/strong>evacuation corridor announced by the\u00a0IDF.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"graphic\">\n<div class=\"graphic__anchor\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Speaking Wednesday, T\u00fcrk urged both sides to agree to a ceasefire to allow the delivery of aid to Gaza, the release of hostages by Hamas, and \u201cthe political space to implement a durable end to the occupation.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cEven in the context of a 56-year-old occupation, the current situation is the most dangerous in decades faced by people in Gaza, in Israel, in the West Bank but also regionally,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Israeli military has pushed back against accusations of war crimes, saying its strikes on Hamas targets followed international law and sought\u00a0to minimize civilian casualties.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel\u2019s attacks have\u00a0killed at least 10,515 people\u00a0and injured more than 26,000 others in Gaza since the war began,\u00a0according to a Wednesday report by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, drawing from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline gallery--hidden\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__container\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__slides\">                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <\/div>\n<p>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev-overlay\"><\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next-overlay\"><\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"gallery-inline__headline\">In pictures: Israel at war with Hamas<\/h5>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__counter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__controls\">        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev\">          Prev                  <\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next\">          Next                  <\/button>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      T\u00fcrk delivered his comments after visiting the Rafah crossing\u00a0on the Gaza-Egypt border \u2013 the only border crossing not controlled by Israel. In recent weeks, it has been opened to allow the limited entry of aid, and the exit of foreign nationals and severely injured Palestinians from Gaza.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      He said the Rafah crossing is a symbolic lifeline for the more than 2 million people\u00a0in Gaza\u00a0and called for more aid to be delivered, saying: \u201cThe lifeline has been unjustly, outrageously thin.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIn Rafah I have witnessed the gates to a living nightmare,\u201d he\u00a0said in a statement. \u201cA nightmare where people have been suffocating, under persistent bombardment, mourning their families, struggling for water, for food, for electricity and fuel.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The main UN agency operating\u00a0in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0said\u00a0Thursday it\u00a0was able to deliver\u00a0medical supplies to\u00a0Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza\u2019s largest medical facility, \u201cdespite huge risks to our staff and health partners due to relentless bombardments.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)\u00a0described the conditions\u00a0in the hospital as \u201cdisastrous,\u201d saying\u00a0there were\u00a0almost two patients for every bed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hospital wards are overflowing, with patients being treated on the floor, and\u00a0tens of thousands of\u00a0displaced Gazans seeking shelter in the facility\u2019s parking lots and yards, it said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Aid organizations have also highlighted the dangers of delivering supplies within Gaza. The International Committee of the Red Cross\u00a0(ICRC)\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0said\u00a0its convoy had come under fire\u00a0but\u00a0did not apportion blame.\u00a0Two trucks were damaged in the attack and a driver sustained minor injuries, the ICRC said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)\u00a0later\u00a0said Israel was responsible for\u00a0firing on the convoy.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes in the past month, the United Nations human rights chief said, as thousands of Palestinians\u00a0fled south\u00a0amid Israel\u2019s intensifying offensive against the Islamist militant group. \u201cThe atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on October 7 were heinous, brutal and shocking, they were\u00a0war\u00a0crimes \u2013 as is the continued holding <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}