“South Africa calls on Israel to end its genocidal aggression, forced displacement and starvation of the Palestinian people as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip,’’ the Foreign Ministry said.
The Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, accused Israel of intentionally imposing life-threatening conditions on Palestinians, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare.
The call came shortly after at least 36 civilians, including 15 children, were killed in an Israeli strike on an inhabited home in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
“The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence,” they said in a statement signed by the heads of UN agencies, including the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme, and other aid groups.
During a press conference with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Cairo, Tebboune said: “I have come to Egypt on a friendly, brotherly visit to coordinate and consult with my brother, President AL-Sisi.”
In a speech delivered at the opening of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk called on states to take action regarding the blatant disregard by the Israeli occupation of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Highlighting the cases of children dying in Gaza of malnutrition, the ten independent UN experts said: “With the death of these children from starvation despite medical treatment in central Gaza, there is no doubt that famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza.”
The statement came after the Israeli army launched a ground offensive in Shuja’iyya on Thursday, the third since the war began on 7 October of last year.
'Our gov't and Labour leadership have provided support for Israel as it commits genocide. They have blood on their hands,' says Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The leader of Iraq’s National Wisdom Movement has denounced the Israeli crimes against displaced Palestinians in Rafah urging the international community to take immediate measures.
“The siege has been ongoing since Thursday evening. The Israeli army is besieging the camp from all sides. No one can enter or leave it,” Mu’ayyad Shaa’ban, the head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, told Anadolu.
“This is a very unusual situation, which is accentuated by the fact that this is the first genocide that the liberal democracies of the West have endorsed and supported,” Richard Falk, a Professor emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, told Anadolu, accusing them of “double standards”.