UN's High Commissioner for Refugees firmly rebuked the Security Council's inability to act.
Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 17, 2023.A senior United Nations Human Rights official has left his post citing the United Nation’s failure to prevent what he refers to as a genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza who remain under severe Israeli bombardment.
“I’m not going to offer commentary on every strike. We’re just not in a position to do so from a podium here without information that we have verified on our own. I would just reiterate what I have said before, which is, of course, Israel has the right to defend itself. We have talked to them about that right and we’ve talked about it publicly.
“Solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was always described as ‘elusive’: but it has not been elusive; it has been repeatedly and deliberately neglected, cast aside as something no longer necessary, almost ridiculed. I hope that now, amidst the horrors of war, we can at least see how grave a miscalculation that has been. There will be no peace in the region and in the world without a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the end of the Israeli occupation.
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