UN calls for investigation into crimes in Gaza hospitals where mass graves were found

The office of United Nations for human rights called this Tuesday for an independent and effective investigation into the deaths that occurred in two hospitals in Link -now destroyed- which were besieged by the Israeli army and where mass graves were found.

“Given the prevailing climate of impunity, this should include international investigators“, said the high commissioner of UN for human rights, Turkish Volkerwho said he was horrified by the devastation of hospital complexes Al Naser (South of Link) It is Al-Shifa (north).

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“O hospitals They are entitled to very special protection under the International human law. “The intentional killing of civilians, detainees and others out of combat is a war crime.”he emphasized.

According to information from authorities Link transmitted to Human Rights Officein the first hospital, 283 bodies were recovered, of which 42 were identified. The victims would have been buried at a certain depth in an area covered in rubble.

“Among the dead it is indicated that there are elderly people, women and children, while some were found with their hands tied”said the spokesperson for the UN human rights body, Shamdasani Ravine.

At the Al-Shifa Hospitalreports indicate that they have been found thirty corpses of Palestinians buried in two graves dug in courtyards adjacent to the emergency building and the dialysis building, respectively.

“The Israeli defense forces said that They killed 200 Palestinians during its operation in the Al-Shifa Hospitalbut there is information that indicates that this number may be underestimated”said the spokesperson.

Source: Elcomercio

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