Hawzah News Agency- Echoing global concern after more than 18 months of war, the United Nations' rights chief Volker Turk meanwhile called on the international community to launch "concerted efforts" to end Israel's total aid blockade on the Gaza Strip, in effect since early March.
Rights group Amnesty, in its annual report, said Israel was acting with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide".
According to the Gaza-based Health Ministry, the Zionist regime’s military operations have so far claimed the lives of at least 52,365 people in Gaza''.
The world powers stood by in complicit silence as the Zionist regime carried out the genocide of tens of thousands of Palestinians, systematically exterminating multigenerational families, obliterating homes, livelihoods, hospitals, and schools—transforming Gaza into a wasteland of displacement and despair.
Israel rejected the accusations, accusing Amnesty of spreading Hamas propaganda and insisting that the military did not target civilians.
Amnesty said it had "documented multiple war crimes by Israel" including attacks on civilians, and that Israel had "deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe".
The London-based rights group said 1.9 million people -- about 90 percent of Gaza's population -- had been forcibly displaced during the war. The UN has cited similar figures.
Heba Morayef, Amnesty's regional director, said Palestinians had endured "extreme levels of suffering" while the world showed a "complete inability or lack of political will to put a stop to it".
"There must be concerted international efforts to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching a new unseen level'', he said in a statement.
"Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza".
The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said children and the sick were the most vulnerable.
"Children in Gaza are going to bed starving. The ill and the sick are not able to get medical care because of shortages in supplies'', said UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma.
"Gaza has become a land of desperation... The siege on Gaza is a silent killer'', she said.
The UN agency also said that more than 50 of its staff, including teachers and doctors, had been abused by Israeli forces in detention during the course of the war.
Source: FRANCE 24
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