{"id":38966,"date":"2024-05-01T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38966"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:25:09","slug":"un-chief-calls-for-independent-probe-into-gaza-mass-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38966","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls for independent probe into Gaza mass graves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Al Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has demanded an independent investigation into reports by Palestinian authorities of mass graves discovered in Gaza<\/a> after bodies with hands tied or medical tubes attached to them were found in multiple sites, including two hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is imperative that independent international investigators with forensic expertise are allowed the immediate access to the sites of these mass graves to establish the precise circumstances under which the Palestinians lost their lives and were buried or reburied,\u201d Guterres said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN secretary-general also urged Israel against invading southern Gaza\u2019s city of Rafah<\/a>, the last refuge for more than 1.4 million Palestinians, after the Israeli prime minister said an offensive would go forward regardless of the outcome of truce talks with Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A military assault on Rafah would \u201cbe an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that while there has been \u201cincremental progress\u201d towards averting \u201can entirely preventable, human-made famine\u201d in northern Gaza, much more is urgently needed, including for Israel to follow through on its promise to open \u201ctwo crossing points between Israel and northern Gaza, so that aid can be brought into Gaza from Ashdod port and Jordan\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited the lack of security for aid workers and civilians as the major obstacle to distributing aid across Gaza. \u201cI again call on the Israeli authorities to allow and facilitate safe, rapid and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid and humanitarian workers, including UNRWA, throughout Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told journalists on Tuesday that aid supplies into Gaza had improved in April, but listed a series of continuing difficulties including regular crossing closures \u201cbecause they [Israel] are dumping released detainees or dumping sometimes bodies taken to Israel and back to the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the UN\u2019s refugee agency for Palestinians, said that Israel had sent 225 bodies to Gaza in three containers since December that were then transported by the UN agency to local health authorities for burial, shutting the crossing temporarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera: United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has demanded an independent investigation into reports by Palestinian authorities of mass graves discovered in Gaza after bodies with hands tied or medical tubes attached to them were found in multiple sites, including two hospitals. \u201cIt is imperative that independent international investigators with forensic expertise are allowed the immediate access to the sites of these mass graves to establish the precise circumstances under which the Palestinians lost their lives and were buried or reburied,\u201d Guterres said on Tuesday. The UN secretary-general also urged Israel against invading southern Gaza\u2019s city of Rafah, the last… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38968,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966\/revisions\/38968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}