TOP UN officials have condemned Israel’s deliberate and brutal killing of the Palestinians in Gaza while trying to get food aid.
Gaza has become worse than hell on earth, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has told the BBC.
In an interview at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, the organisation’s president Mirjana Spoljaric said ‘humanity is failing’ as it watched the horrors of the Gaza war.
The UN aid chief said that recent ‘horrifying scenes’ of Gazans being killed while seeking food aid were the result of ‘deliberate choices that have systematically deprived them of essentials to survive’.
“The world is watching, day after day, horrifying scenes of Palestinians being shot, wounded or killed in Gaza while simply trying to eat,” Tom Fletcher said in a statement.
The Civil Defence in Gaza announced on Tuesday that 27 people were killed when Israeli forces opened fire from tanks and drones on thousands of citizens who had gathered near Al Alam Square. They were on their way to the US aid centre in Rafah to receive food assistance.
Fletcher said that dozens of bodies arrived at hospitals after Israeli forces claimed they had opened fire. “This is the result of a series of deliberate choices that have systematically deprived two million people of the necessities they need to survive.”
Fletcher reiterated UN Secretary General António Guterres’ call for an independent probe into the incidents near aid centres.
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