by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
A new report was released today by The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) which stated that 70% of the deaths of innocent civilians in Gaza have been women and children.
Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s “apparent indifference” to the killing of civilians in Gaza, after a new report from his agency showed that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths were of women and children.
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report on Friday, having verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people reportedly killed during the first six months of Israel’s war in Gaza, finding that a high proportion were women and children – the youngest just one day old.
Turk blasted Israel’s “wanton disregard” for the “rules of war … designed to limit and prevent human suffering in times of armed conflict”. He urged Israel to comply with its international obligations, noting its current siege of northern Gaza and its decision to sever ties with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
The report warned that “widespread or systematic” attacks on civilians could amount to “crimes against humanity”.
“And if committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, they may also constitute genocide,” it said. (Full article.)
52 nations at the UN co-signed a letter calling for the immediate halt to arms sales to Israel, including Russia.
Perhaps the loudest voice among these countries calling for an end to the genocide, is Turkey, a member of NATO. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that there is no other war where women and children have been directly targeted as much as in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
No other war targets women and children like in Gaza — Erdogan
‘In last 13 months, more than two-thirds of the over 50,000 innocent people killed in Gaza were women, children,’ says Turkish President.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that there is no other war where women and children have been directly targeted as much as in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
“In the last 13 months, more than two-thirds of the over 50,000 innocent people killed in Gaza were women and children,” said Erdogan on Friday in an address to 6th International Women and Justice Summit in the Turkish commercial capital, Istanbul.
He added that Ankara will continue to stand by its “brothers and sisters” in Gaza and Lebanon, both of them under siege by Israeli offensives, until the massacres stop and a ceasefire and peace are established.
He also said: “The brave women of Palestine, who defended their children, their families, their homeland, and their cause under the bombardments in Gaza, are emerging as monumental figures of pride for the Ummah.”
Erdogan also said that he “sincerely” believes that Donald Trump, who this week won a return to the White House after a four-year hiatus, will take the “necessary steps to end wars,” voicing hope that this will happen.
He expressed hope that Trump, in his second term, will move away from the previous administration’s policies regarding Gaza war. (Source.)
TRT World produced a short video titled: “How Palestinian children bear the brunt of Israel’s war on Gaza“.
WARNING! This is a very graphic and difficult video to watch! I had to stop it half way through and regain my composure emotionally before continuing, so horrible is this footage.
Americans Have Innocent Blood on Their Hands
I agree with these nations calling for a halt to selling arms to Israel. Israel is simply a proxy state for the Zionists in the U.S., most of whom are Evangelical Christians, and not even Jews.
Israel could never do what they are doing in Gaza and Lebanon, without U.S. weapons, and without U.S. Big Tech.
U.S. Big Tech companies are the largest employer in Israel, and their genocide against the Palestinians and constant bombing and committing acts of terror in Lebanon would never be possible without U.S. Big Tech.
Here is a good report about Silicon Valley’s role in this genocide, which includes interviews of tech workers who were fired from Google and other companies for daring to talk about the genocide in Gaza, and the role of Big Tech.
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