Israeli Shelling of UNRWA Clinic in Gaza City Kills Ten
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli shelling targeted a UNRWA clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, resulting in the death of at least 10 displaced Palestinians, as the UNRWA reports repeated Israeli strikes on its facilities during the war.
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli shelling targeted a UNRWA clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians.
The UNRWA said Israel’s military has repeatedly struck its facilities during the war, damaging 171 of them.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territory, expressed concerns about the sanitized jargon employed by the Israeli military during its onslaught against civilians in Gaza is designed to “camouflage” killing.
According to Albanese, Israel's use of terms like "evacuation orders" and "safe zones" creates the illusion that military operations prioritize civilian protection.
The reality could not be further from the truth, she said in a social media post. Albanese criticized this "humanitarian camouflage," asserting that Gaza has effectively become a zone where civilians are considered expendable and everything is vulnerable to destruction.
At the United Nations Security Council, demands for prompt action against Israeli leaders were raised following the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, faced with mounting pressure, according to the Associated Press.
The ICC prosecutor was urged to take decisive steps in response to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by Israeli forces, with expectations for the ICC “to be courageous and to issue arrest warrants against officials of the Israeli regime”.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the ICC of accomplishing nothing since it began a preliminary examination of abuses in the Palestinian territories in 2015 and a formal investigation in 2021.
Algeria’s deputy UN ambassador, Nacim Gaouaoui, expressed hope the ICC would take “a serious approach” to its Palestinian investigations and “demonstrate that it is not a tool used by some members of the international community to threaten whoever they want.”
Responding to these calls, Khan reaffirmed his commitment to impartial investigations into potential war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, the Palestinian territories, as well as other war zones.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Guterres criticized Israel for its war on Gaza, describing it as causing "relentless death and destruction" among Palestinians in the Strip.
More than 35,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
