Turk mentioned Palestinian armed teams launching indiscriminate projectiles throughout southern Israel and the holding of hostages additionally violated worldwide humanitarian legislation.
Final month, the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ordered Israel to stop acts of genocide towards Palestinians and do extra to assist civilians, though it stopped wanting ordering a ceasefire.
Turk mentioned the prospect of an Israeli floor assault within the southern border city of Rafah, the place some 1.5 million persons are estimated to be crammed after fleeing their houses additional north to flee Israel’s offensive, “would take the nightmare being inflicted on individuals in Gaza into a brand new, dystopian, dimension”.
“Personally, I fail to spot how such an operation might be in step with the binding provisional measures issued by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice,” he mentioned.
Turk added that such a floor offensive would incur large lack of life, improve the chance of atrocity crimes, spur extra displacement and “signal a loss of life warrant for any hope of efficient humanitarian assist”.
