Burrell: Cutting off water, food and electricity in Gaza is a violation of international law
Joseph Burrell, the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, told reporters after the meeting of the foreign ministers of this organization about the Palestinian issue: Israel is violating international laws by cutting off water, electricity and food against the Gaza Strip.
Attack on civilians is violation of international law
WHO also reported 13 attacks on health facilities in Gaza since the weekend and said that its medical supplies had already been used up.
The United Nations humanitarian office on Tuesday said nearly 200,000 people, a tenth of the population, have fled their homes in Gaza since the start of hostilities.
This statement the organization made, poised for shortages of water and electricity due to a blockade.
“Displacement has escalated dramatically across the Gaza strip, reaching more than 187,500 people since Saturday.
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“Most of them are taking shelter in schools,” Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesperson, told a Geneva briefing, saying further displacement was expected as clashes continued.
A World Health Organization spokesperson said it had reported 13 attacks on health facilities in the Gaza strip since the weekend and said that its medical supplies stored there had already been used up.
2000 Palestinian killed in Israel airstrikes
The Israeli war has so far killed 2000 Palestinians, including 360 children and 230 women, and injured as many as 4,600 others.
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations has issued a vehement condemnation of the Israeli regime’s underway indiscriminate war against the Gaza Strip, and its threat to bring the entire coastal sliver under an all-out siege.
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“Such blatant dehumanization and attempts to bomb a people into submission, to use starvation as a method of warfare, and to eradicate their national existence is nothing less than genocidal,” Riyad Mansour wrote in a letter to the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
“These acts constitute war crimes,” he added.
Calling up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, the Israeli regime has declared a “long” war on Gaza in response to Operation al-Aqsa Storm.
Gaza’s resistance movements initiated the operation on Saturday in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
