Development has followed information that the Israeli army has intensified its offensive on the ground in Gaza City, ordering residents to leave the region.

Speaking of the south of the enclave, UnicefTess Ingram has described the forced mass movement of families as a “deadly threat to the most vulnerable”.

“” It is inhuman to expect almost half a million children to beat and traumatized by more than 700 days of relentless conflict to flee a landscape of hell to find themselves in another“, She insisted.

150,000 go south in a month

According to the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office, OchhaIn recent days, partners monitoring the people movement in Gaza have counted nearly 70,000 trips to the south and around 150,000 in the month. The only available route, Al Rashid Road, was “very busy” when Ms. Ingram was there on Monday, she said.

Unicef ​​spokesperson described that he had met a mother who had walked for more than six hours of Gaza City in the south with her five children, “all dirty, thirsty and hungry”, including two without shoes.

They are pushed with tens of thousands of others to “a so-called humanitarian area” encompassing Al-Mawasi and the surrounding regions, she said.

Sea of ​​despair

Ms. Ingram described their destination as “a sea of ​​fortune tents, human despair” and services that are “insufficient” to support the hundreds of thousands that already live there.

The malnutrition of children in Gaza “in a spiral”Ingram continued, stressing that, according to UNICEF estimates, some 26,000 children in the enclave currently require treatment for acute malnutrition – more than 10,000 in Gaza City.

Famine was confirmed at the end of last month in Gaza City by supported food insecurity experts.

Closed food centers

UNICEF Ingram said that due to the evacuation and military climbing orders more nutrition centers in Gaza City have been forced to close this week, “cutting children from a third of the remaining treatment sites that can save their lives”.

While the humanitarian workers remain on the spot and continue to respond to the crisis, “it becomes more difficult with each bombardment and each denial,” she said.

According to OCHA, last Sunday on 17 missions according to which the humanitarian teams coordinated with the Israeli authorities, only four were facilitated, while seven missions were refused and others were hampered on the ground or had to be canceled.

Ms. Ingram spoke of the dilemma of the desperate gasans with which the Gazans are confronted: “Stay in danger or run away to a place that they also know dangerous.” She recalled that Al-mawasi had been attacked about two weeks ago, when eight children were killed while they were queuing for water; The youngest victim was three years old.

More to follow …

In the midst of the intensification of the bombing in the city of Gaza during the night, the Middle East crisis took the front of the stage at the UN on Tuesday, from the Genveva headquarters of the World Organization, where Israel rejected the allegations of genocide by an international panel of independent human rights investigators. Development was before an urgent debate to the Human Rights Council caused by Israeli strikes on the political leadership of Hamas last week in Doha.

In a new report published in the context of the intensification of Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the Independent International Commission for the Independent Survey in Occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israelurged Israel and all countries to fulfill their obligations under international law “to end the genocide” and to punish those responsible.

“The Commission concludes that Israel is responsible for the Gaza Genocide Commission,” insisted Navi Pillay, president of the committee. “It is clear that there is the intention of destroying the Palestinians in Gaza thanks to acts that meet the criteria set out in the genocide agreement.”

Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Danny Meton, rejected the commission’s “picked” conclusions, arguing that the 70 -page report “promotes a story to the service of Hamas and his supporters while trying to delegitimize and demonize the state of Israel.

At a press conference in Geneva, the commission of the members of the Ms. Pillay and Chris Sidoti inquiry – who are not UN staff but appointed by the Human Rights CouncilThe 47 Member States – explained that their war investigations in Gaza starting with terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023 had led to the conclusion that the Israeli authorities and the security forces “committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide crime».

These acts are:

• murder,
• causing serious bodily or mental damage,
• deliberately inflicting the calculated living conditions to cause the destruction of the Palestinians, and
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births.

Ms. Pillay argued that the responsibility for atrocity crimes “lies in the Israeli authorities in the highest levels”, in the midst of “explicit declarations” denigrating the Palestinians by Israeli civil and military authorities.

The Commission also analyzed the conduct of Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces in Gaza, “including the imposing famine and inhuman living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza … The genocidal intention was the only reasonable inference that could be concluded from the nature of their operations,” the panel said.

Methodical examination

The assertion of the Commission follows its examination of Israeli military operations in Gaza, “including death and the seriously harmful number of Palestinians” and the imposition of a “total seat, including a blockage of humanitarian aid leading to famine,” he said.

According to the wing of the United Nations coordination, Ochha,, Nearly a million people remain in Gaza City, the famine has been confirmed there and the residents are faced with daily bombing and “the access compromised to the means of survival after the Israeli army has placed the whole city under a trip”.

For his latest report, the panel also examined what he called “systematic destruction” of health care and education in Gaza and “systematic” acts of sexual violence and sex against the Palestinians.

Call of justice

In addition, the commission of inquiry examined the alleged “direct targeting” of children and “without taking Israel into account [of] the orders of International Court of Justicewhich made an order in March 2024 that Israel should take “all necessary and effective measures to guarantee … the unhindered provision on a large scale by all the concerns of the basic services and humanitarian assistance necessary for Palestinians through Gaza”.

“The international community cannot remain silent on the genocidal campaign launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” said Pillay.

“When clear signs and evidence of emerging genocide, the lack of action to stop it is equivalent to a complicity,” she added.

“All states are under a legal obligation to use all the means which are reasonably available to them to stop the genocide in Gaza.”

Qatari dimension

In a related development on Tuesday, the Human Rights Council mixed its schedule to make room for an urgent debate on the Israeli strike last week on the political leadership of Hamas in Qatar.

The strike has targeted a district of the Qatari capital, Doha, killing six people, including five members of Hamas and provoking a general conviction, notably Security advice and secretary general.

In a press release, António Guterres spoke about what he called a “blatant violation” of Qatari sovereignty and territorial integrity.

And at a meeting of the Security Council called in response to the strike, the UN Political Affairs Head told ambassadors that the attack on violation of Qatar sovereignty was a serious threat to regional peace and security. He also undermined international mediation efforts to end the war in Gaza and returning the hostages, said Rosemary Dicarlo.