Request of UN experts for immediate sanctions against Israel

according to the international group Tasnim News, 50 experts The United Nations in the field of human rights issued a joint statement calling for sanctions against the Zionist regime after its brutal attacks on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.

This means: Horrific images of destruction, displacement and death have been released from Rafah, including the dismembered bodies of babies and children and people being burned alive as a result of indiscriminate attacks. The images show displaced civilians trapped inside burning plastic tents, leading to horrific casualties among them.

UN independent experts on rights Bishr emphasized: These barbaric attacks are a clear violation of international laws and are also considered a clear attack on human affairs and humanity. The targeting of places designated as shelters for Palestinian refugees, including women, children, persons with disabilities and the elderly, is a flagrant violation of the laws of war and a horrific act that urgently requires serious international action to confront it and bring the perpetrators to justice. .

These experts added: Even if the Israeli authorities now claim that these attacks were a mistake, they bear a great international legal responsibility and describe these crimes as a A mistake is not considered a legal justification for such crimes and cannot revive the victims of this crime in Rafah or provide relief to their survivors. This brutal attack was issued immediately after the historic ruling of the International Court of Justice to stop the military operations of the Israeli army in Rafah, but Israel clearly ignored this ruling.

The mentioned experts They stated that the judgments of the Hague Court are binding and Israel must follow these judgments. These crimes continue while Israel has been impunity during the past decades and during the brutal attack it has been carrying out against the Palestinian people since eight months ago.

The United Nations experts further called for an independent international investigation into the barbaric attacks of the Zionist regime on the refugees’ tents in Rafah and emphasized the need to prosecute the perpetrators of this crime.

They They also called for immediate sanctions and other measures by the international community to put pressure on the occupying regime to adhere to international laws and stop the aggression against civilians.

Global condemnations of the heinous crimes committed by the Zionist occupation against the defenseless Palestinian refugees in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, Tor Vansland, the special coordinator of the United Nations for peace in the Middle East, called for a comprehensive and transparent investigation into the brutal attack by the Zionist regime on the refugees’ tents in the west of Rafah. .

Amnesty International also issued a statement while condemning the brutal aggressions of the Zionist regime against the refugees in Rafah and emphasized: the horrific airstrikes against civilians in Rafah were the latest aggressions. which the Israeli forces did without regard to any of the international laws in the Gaza Strip. Blind attacks that cause the killing and wounding of innocent civilians are war crimes and must be investigated.

Sunday night attack by Israeli fighters on the location of displaced persons’ tents in UNRWA warehouses in The Tel-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah city led to the martyrdom of more than 45 Palestinian civilians and the emergence of horrific images. was targeted. As a result of this crime, more than 45 innocent Palestinians, including women and children, were martyred. The images that have been published from the site of the Israeli attack show that most of the martyrs of this criminal attack were burned alive due to the burning of the tents, and these Zionist crimes are still continuing.

This is despite the fact that on Friday, the International Court of Justice ordered the cessation of the military operations of the Zionist army in Rafah, but the occupiers, as usual, do not pay attention to this request and the international order and continue to brutalize Gaza under the full support of the United States.

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