23/10/2023
Human rights violations but denied.
🚨Days 3-4: Palestinian human rights organizations condemn the widespread killings in Gaza and call on the international community to take action
For the third day, the Israeli military continued their military offensive against Gaza. The third day saw the largest number and most violent attacks against the civilian population in Gaza and against civilian objects, especially homes, which are supposed to be protected under international humanitarian law. The Israeli authorities used weapons with the capacity to cause large scale destruction, resulting in significant loss of life and property. Entire families were wiped out, and the attacks affected dozens of high-rise residential buildings, destroying or defacing entire residential neighborhoods. Homes and private facilities were attacked together with public buildings such as ministries, universities, schools, businesses, media agencies and hospitals. The state of the total siege was preserved, with supplies of electricity, water, fuel, food, and medicine cut off. Such acts constitute serious breach of international norms and conventions.
The Israeli military forces intensified their aerial bombing across the entire Gaza Strip; no area was spared. Entities with special protected status and indispensable for the survival of the civilian population Gaza, were targeted, including ambulances, arterial roads, electricity networks, water and sewage networks, waste treatment sites, municipal buildings, agricultural lands, and livestock. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as of 8 a.m. on 11 October, the military attacks have killed 950 Palestinians and injured 5,000 others. Thousands of homes and private and public properties were destroyed.
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