ICC Raises Alarm on Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
“Most fundamentally, there should not be any impediment to humanitarian relief supplies going to children, to women and men, civilians. They are innocent and have rights under international humanitarian law,” Khan said in an address from the Rafah border crossing on Sunday.
“We need to make sure that the law is on the front lines, and the law is seeing to ameliorate the suffering of so many at this moment living in terror and frightened and have a right to be protected by the institutions built after the Second World War.
“My office is determined to make sure we vindicate those right wherever possible and wherever we have jurisdiction,” he added.
Israel has been attacking Gaza in the wake of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on October 7, which was in response to decades-long violence against Palestinians and recurrent incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque.
The death toll since the start of the Israeli carnage on October 7 has surpassed 8,000 with upwards of 20,500 Palestinians wounded. 70 percent of casualties in Gaza have been children, women, and the elderly.
Source: Agencies
