LONDON: Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera has said that probes into four incidents on October 10, 11, 16 and 17 in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon have shown that Israeli military used white phosphorus as a weapon against people in civilian areas.
“The incidents that took place increase concern as white phosphorus has been used by Israeli army in the past with devastating consequences for the civilians,” Rovera stated.
She said that this was something that must never be used in region where there are civilian population. She further said that they have seen that the white phosphors have been used in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and it should not happen again.
Amnesty International Conforms Use of White Phosphorus
Earlier, UN experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian truce in Gaza, adding time was running out for Palestinians there who find themselves at “grave risk of genocide.”
About four weeks of barbaric Israeli bombing against the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 have martyred over 9,000 people including women and children, health officials said. “We remain complete convinced that the Palestinians are at grave risk of genocide,” UN experts said in a statement. The experts demanded a humanitarian truce to ensure that help reaches those who need it the most.
On October 28, departing top UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber wrote to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said they were seeing a genocide unfolding before their eyes, and the Organization that they served appears helpless to prevent it.
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Aid and relief supplies to Gaza have been choked since Israel started bombing the densely populated Gaza.
“The situation in the Gaza Strip has reached a disastrous tipping point,” the UN experts stated, saying that people in Gaza had been left with scarce medicine, water, essential supplies and fuel while facing health issues. The experts also asked Israel and its allies to agree to an urgent cease-fire in Gaza.
Earlier, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the continuation of Israeli massacres and war crimes, the latest of which was the Jabalia Camp butchery committed by the Israeli occupation forces today, destroying an entire residential neighborhood, which led to the death of hundreds of Palestinians, the Saudi Press Agency (SAP) reported on Tuesday.
