According to a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office, in total, 44% of the victims of Israel’s recent war crimes in Gaza are children, among them children as young as one day old. The oldest person killed in recent Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip was 97 years old.
The head of the United Nations Human Rights Office, Volker Turk, condemned Israel’s apparent indifference to the killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip by publishing this report.
He also criticized Israel’s deliberate disregard of the rules of war in the Gaza Strip. Rules established to reduce civilian casualties in armed conflicts. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also called on Israel to adhere to its international obligations.
According to the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Israel’s actions in the widespread and systematic attacks on civilians can be considered as a crime against humanity. Also, if these attacks were carried out in order to destroy, in whole or in part, a nationality or ethnicity or a racial or religious group, it can be considered as genocide.
International reports about Israel’s criminal actions in occupied Palestine, if they do not have any practical results, are a clear confirmation of the loss of the seventy-year-old illusion about the pacifism of Zionism and the fruitlessness of compromise with this criminal regime.
