UN: 7 Out of 10 People Killed in Gaza Were Women or Children, “Serious Violations of Law”

The UN has found an eye-opening report warning of Israel’s “serious violations of international law” in Gaza, with women and children making up the vast majority of those murdered in Gaza amid genocide by Israeli forces. genocide.”

a 31 page report In a report published Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Office found that of the thousands of murders the office was able to verify from the beginning of the Israeli genocide through September of this year, 44 percent were child murders and 26 percent were femicide. 70 percent of the death toll.

In other words, the report revealed that children constitute the largest group of people killed by Israel. The three most represented age categories were children ages 5 to 9; children aged 10 to 14 years; and infants and toddlers ages 0 to 4.

The rate of women and children killed is indicative of Israel’s widespread killings of civilians and its “failure to comply with the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law,” the report said.

The civilian death toll is likely well over 70 percent, thanks to the influence of Israeli forces. they also adopted a practice Labeling all men in Gaza as affiliated with Hamas without evidence to justify mass killings. In addition to killing thousands of men, Israeli forces also captured Palestinian men and boys en masse. including healthcare workers – and smuggled them into camps where they were subjected to severe torture before being releasedindefinite imprisonment or death.

The organization said it was unable to confirm any further deaths because Israel’s offensive made humanitarian activities “extremely challenging” as Israeli authorities blocked access to UN observers and killed UN personnel.

The findings further contradict Israeli forces and U.S. officials’ persistent insistence, unsupported by evidence, that Israel took the necessary steps to protect civilians in the midst of genocide.

As the report noted, although as of April Israeli forces had killed more than 34,000 Palestinians (if not many more by some estimates), they had only released the names of 75 Palestinians specifically targeted for death.

The report found that nearly 80 percent of confirmed homicides were killed in residences or other residences. Of these deaths, 88 percent were in incidents that resulted in the deaths of five or more Palestinians; This underlines the indiscriminate nature of Israel’s attacks.

The report contains some of the strongest language ever approved by the UN to describe Israel’s attack, saying widespread disregard for the protection of civilians under international law likely amounts to genocide.

“In many cases, the violations documented by the parties in this report may constitute war crimes,” the report states.

“If committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population, it may constitute crimes against humanity, beyond State or organizational policy. “It may constitute genocide if committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group,” it continues.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk called on Israel to immediately comply with several binding ICJ decisions demanding an end to the Israeli army’s attacks.

Türk said, “It is essential that allegations of serious violations of international law be properly evaluated through reliable and impartial judicial bodies, and in the meantime, all relevant information and evidence is collected and stored.”