UN rights chief slams Israel’s ‘defiance’ of international law
2 Aug 2014 3:57 AM IST
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday slammed what she said was Israel’s ‘deliberate defiance’ of international law during the Gaza conflict.
Pillay lambasted the country’s attacks on homes, schools, hospitals and United Nations facilities which are sheltering 250,000 civilians in Gaza.
‘There appears to be deliberate defiance of obligations that international law imposes on Israel,’ the South African told reporters.
Pillay said that repeated calls to respect the laws of war had gone unheeded during the latest crisis and previous spikes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
‘The same pattern of attacks is occurring now on homes, schools, hospitals, UN premises. None of this appears to me to be accidental,’ she said. She spoke a day after Israeli shells slammed into a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp which was sheltering some 3,300 homeless Gazans, killing 16 people.
Pillay lambasted the country’s attacks on homes, schools, hospitals and United Nations facilities which are sheltering 250,000 civilians in Gaza.
‘There appears to be deliberate defiance of obligations that international law imposes on Israel,’ the South African told reporters.
Pillay said that repeated calls to respect the laws of war had gone unheeded during the latest crisis and previous spikes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
‘The same pattern of attacks is occurring now on homes, schools, hospitals, UN premises. None of this appears to me to be accidental,’ she said. She spoke a day after Israeli shells slammed into a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp which was sheltering some 3,300 homeless Gazans, killing 16 people.
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