More than 50 UN experts want Israel to be subject to sanctions and an arms embargo

More than 50 UN experts have called for "decisive international action" after expressing their outrage at the brutal attack by Israeli forces that killed at least 45 Palestinians who had sought refuge in a makeshift camp in Rafah, south of Gaza. The Gaza Strip.

May 30, 2024 - 08:10
More than 50 UN experts want Israel to be subject to sanctions and an arms embargo

The UN experts have said: "Horrifying images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn to pieces and people burned alive".

The group of more than 50 United Nations experts has continued to explain in its statement that reports from the targeted area show that the attack by the Zionist army was arbitrary and disproportionate, and was carried out while people were stuck inside burning in plastic tents , causing horrific deaths.

The UN experts have pointed out that the "barbaric" attacks fall into the group of major violations of the laws of war, and they added that they, for their part, are deeply disturbed by how the international community failed to stop Israel's attacks against Gaza.

The experts have called for an independent investigation to be carried out on the Rafah attack, along with immediate measures to impose sanctions and a weapons ban on the Zionist regime of Israel.

In addition, they have said, explaining that the Rafah attack was carried out 'by mistake' does not make it legal, nor did it bring back those who were killed or comfort the survivors.

The United Nations expert group has concluded its statement by saying: "The suffering of the people of Gaza must end right now".

The recent killing of Palestinian civilians in the supposedly "safe" area of ​​the Gaza Strip further exposes "the brutality of the genocide carried out by the Israeli regime and the participation of the US government in the ongoing genocide in the southern city of Rafah of that zone.

This is according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest organization to defend the rights of American Muslims.

On Tuesday, 21 Palestinians were brutally killed, 12 of them women, in a new brutal Israeli attack on the tents of displaced people, in a designated safe area in Mawasi west of Rafah.

The recent massacre by Israel in the Rafah refugee camps, another war crime

 

In a statement on Tuesday, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awadh said:

"Day after day, murder after murder and the administration of President Joe Biden of the United States continues to give bombs to the right-wing government of Israel that are used to slaughter and brutally kill Palestinian children, women, the elderly, medical workers, journalists of international aid workers and patients injured in these brutal attacks by the United States continues to shield Israel from international responsibility. The brutality of genocide is revealed every day by the piles of burned and dismembered Palestinian citizens. must be stopped immediately."

Despite the clear brutality and crime of Israel against the people of Gaza, the White House of the United States has said that there is no mass killing or any violation of human rights committed by the apartheid regime of Israel against the people of Gaza and especially in the events the recent painful and sad events of the regime in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.

On Friday CAIR applauded the decision of the International Court of Justice of the United Nations (ICJ) based in The Hague to order the illegal Israeli regime to stop its attacks in the city of Rafah but it has refused to comply with the order.