The United Nations rights chief voiced alarm on Monday at the overt “genocidal rhetoric” by Israeli officials about Gaza and called for decisive international action to “end the carnage”. He said the occupied Palestinian territory was already “a graveyard”. In his opening address to the UN Human Rights Council’s 60th session, Volker Turk slammed “Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza (and) its infliction of indescribable suffering and wholesale destruction”.

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