Gaza Strip: Human Rights Office for a Halt to Bombing of Shelters
City Destroyed by the Israeli Bombings, Oct 2024 Photo: @MrPakirri
October 4, 2024 Hour: 2:13 pm
At least 14 schools were targeted by the Israeli army in September, while in August there was an attack on a school every other day.
On Friday, the UN Human Rights Office called for an end to the bombing of shelters in Gaza, as the Israeli offensive in the region has claimed thousands of lives in recent weeks.
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A statement issued by the agency demanded that the Defense Forces end the pattern of attacks on buildings sheltering civilians in the Strip, calling the attacks ‘an almost daily occurrence’.
According to the office, in the past 72 hours, at least six schools used as shelters have been attacked, killing dozens of people, including children and women.
Meanwhile, at least 14 schools were targeted by the Israeli army in September, while in August there was an attack on a school every other day.
‘Regardless of whether Palestinian armed groups were present in these facilities, the resulting high rate of civilian casualties makes it difficult to conceive of such attacks as proportionate according to the principles of international humanitarian law,’ the organization warned.
For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) rejected Tel Aviv’s attacks on health workers in neighboring Lebanon, where 28 humanitarians were killed in the last day.
‘Workers, including those at WHO, have done incredible work in very difficult and dangerous conditions, with limited supplies. And yet health care continues to be under attack,’ lamented the agency’s head, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus.
According to the WHO, at least 37 health centers have been closed in the country since the escalation began, while three others in the capital, Beirut, have had to be evacuated.
More than 1,600 people have fallen victim to Israeli bombing in Lebanon and more than a million have been displaced, of whom 350,000 are now living in shelters and 160,000 have crossed the border into Syria, according to UN estimates.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: Aljazeera-DW
