The UN Security Council has called for an “immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza, but both the Israeli and Palestinian envoys to the UN criticised the statement.
Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they protested against the ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Gaza which has claimed the lives of over 800 people.
After a seven hour emergency session, the UNHRC voted overwhelmingly to establish independent Commission of Inquiry into Israel’s ongoing ground offensive in Gaza and accusations of war crimes.
The UN’s top human rights official has warned that Israel may have committed war crimes during its ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Hamas of using “telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause”, he overlooked an element of the conflict that could not be skewed for the viewing public: the damage to Gaza’s infrastructure.