Mass graves in Gaza’s hospitals have also horrified the United Nations
Bodies found in mass graves were naked and had their hands tied, UN
The mass graves in Gaza’s hospitals also shocked the head of the United Nations Human Rights Department.
According to the BBC, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said that he is appalled by the destruction of Al-Nasser and Al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza and the discovery of mass graves in these hospitals after the Israeli crackdown. He also demanded an independent investigation into the testimonies of Palestinians in these hospitals.
According to UN News Urdu, the United Nations Office for Human Rights says that the bodies found in mass graves discovered in Gaza hospitals were naked and their hands were tied. These killings can be classified as war crimes.
According to Palestinian authorities, 283 bodies were found in Al-Nasser, some of which had their hands tied.
The Israeli army had besieged several hospitals in Gaza and cracked down on the presence of Hamas fighters.
Spokesperson of the UN Office for Human Rights (OHCHR), Raveena Shamdasani, speaking to the media in Geneva, said that among these bodies are elderly people, women and wounded bodies. The site was covered with garbage, some of the corpses had their hands tied and their clothes removed.
The head of human rights, Volker Turk, called for an independent, effective and transparent investigation of these testimonies, saying that given the open acquittal of the killings, it is necessary that international investigators should be involved in this inquiry. Under international humanitarian law, a hospital is a very special place that must be protected, and the deliberate killing of civilians, prisoners and others there is a war crime.
The US State Department has also described these news as “incredibly disturbing”.
Speaking to BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme, a man in Gaza said he was searching for the bodies of two of his male relatives who were captured by Israeli soldiers during the recent Israeli offensive in Khan Yunis. After that their bodies were found, I buried them in an apartment, then the Israelis came and moved their bodies to hospitals and buried them in mass graves. Now we search for their bodies every day, but they Not found.
Hamas says that the bodies include civilians who were brutally killed by Israeli forces without charge.
The IDF, on the other hand, said that its forces detained “hundreds of terrorists in the hospital” during the raid, which included ammunition and drugs, killing medical staff and patients. No damage was done.
However, three paramedics told the BBC last month that Israeli soldiers detained and humiliated them during the raid, beating them, dousing them in icy water and forcing them to kneel for hours. In Israeli custody, he was unable to care for patients, which led to the death of several patients.
The Israeli army claimed to have killed 200 Palestinian Mujahideen and detained more than 500 during the attack on al-Shafa hospital. After the five-day operation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that al-Shafa Hospital was “now a hollow building”, which had been destroyed.
It should be noted that more than 34 thousand 180 Palestinians have been martyred in the Israeli bombing of Gaza so far, most of them are children and women.
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