United Nations condemns Israel’s killing of starving people in Gaza, describing it as a massacre
A UN official condemned Israel’s killing of starving civilians in the Gaza Strip, describing what is happening there as a “massacre” that constitutes an “erasure of Palestinian life.”
This came in a media briefing on Gaza delivered by Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, and republished by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Tuesday.
“What we are witnessing is a massacre. It is hunger being used as a weapon. It is forced displacement. It is a death sentence for people simply trying to survive,” Whittall said.
The UN official continued: “These factors appear to constitute a process of erasing Palestinian lives from the Gaza Strip.”
