'Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe,' the special rapporteurs stressed—while other experts said such conditions already exist in the pulverized Palestinian enclave.
As the death toll from over three weeks of relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza from air, land, and sea topped 9,000 on Thursday, a group of United Nations human rights experts warned that 'time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe'—conditions that others argue already exist in the besieged Palestinian strip. 'The situation in Gaza has reached a catastrophic tipping point,' the seven U.N.
reports that 70 U.N. workers have died as a result of Israeli bombardment in Gaza. said Thursday that four of its shelters in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged in the past 24 hours, including a school in the Jabalia camp where 20 people died in an Israeli strike. Numerous experts say Israel is already perpetrating genocide in Gaza, including Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal and former longtime U.N.
'calls on the international community—the U.N., governments, and peoples—to hold Israel accountable for its decades of genocidal colonization,' by 'isolating and sanctioning Israel until its destruction of Gaza and its people ends, and the violent displacement of Palestinians from their lands and communities by Israeli settlers and soldiers cease.
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