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SvennoJ on 13 July 2024
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UN Human Rights Office denounces Israeli use of weapons in ‘populated areas’

The OHCHR has said it condemns the continued Israeli military use of weapons “with area effects in populated areas of Gaza, including in areas which [the military] has itself designated as humanitarian zones, killing many civilians”.

The Office said that the Israeli military reportedly “fired several Air Dropped Munitions in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, next to a makeshift camp hosting around several hundreds of people.”

The strikes hit multiple civilian objects, including tents for the internally displaced, a food kitchen for them and a water salination plant where people were gathering to collect water, leading to tens of fatalities, the OHCHR said.  Israeli military quadcopters also reportedly targeted emergency rescue workers, killing at least one Civil Defence worker and injuring several others.


On the same day, the Israeli military struck a makeshift mosque inside Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. Reports indicate that because it “struck shortly after the noon prayer, many people were still inside or near the mosque, resulting in the death of at least 17 male Palestinians.”

The Office said that the use of “weapons with wide area effect in densely populated areas” has led to “disproportionate harm to civilians and damage to civilian infrastructure”, suggesting a “pattern of willful violation of the disregard of International Humanitarian Law principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution”.

UN rapporteur decries ‘lack of media coverage’ of Israeli attack on refugee camp

Francesca Albanese has said: “Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza is so intense that another massacre of 20 civilians today, in a refugee camp (in Gaza City) received almost no media coverage given the much larger simultaneous massacre in al-Mawasi (now with a death toll of 90).”

We reported earlier that the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said 20 Palestinians are now confirmed dead after Israel bombed people who had gathered to pray near the ruins of a mosque in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.



There is hardly any coverage of the al-Mawasi massacre in Western Media.