The UN’s rights chief Volker Turk has called on countries to halt a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, where a total Israeli blockade on aid is forcing a collapse of life-saving support in the Palestinian territory. “There must be concerted international efforts to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching a new, unseen level,” Mr Turk said in a statement. “Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza,” he added.
UN rights chief demands world acts to stop Israel’s Gaza ‘catastrophe’
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