UN special rapporteurs, including Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, have warned that the Palestinian people are at risk of genocide and called for a humanitarian ceasefire.
The rapporteurs said in a statement issued on Thursday that the Israeli bombardment, which targeted a residential complex in the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip two days ago, "a flagrant violation of international law, and a war crime."
Attacking a camp housing civilians, including women and children, "is a flagrant violation of the rules of proportionality and distinction between combatants and civilians", they said.
In the statement, signed by a number of UN special rapporteurs, the UN rapporteurs urged immediate action to stop the aggression against unarmed civilians, warning that time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. "We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at risk of genocide."
They explained that the situation in Gaza has reached a catastrophic turning point, and warned of the Strip's urgent need for food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, and warned of the health risks threatening the population of the Strip.
The Ministry of Interior in Gaza had said – on October 31 / October – that the occupation army committed a horrific massacre, where Israeli shelling caused 400 victims between a martyr and wounded, and destroyed an entire residential neighborhood in Jabalya camp, before the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced at dawn on Thursday, the number rose to a thousand people between martyr and wounded.
The U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday that Israeli shelling of the Jabalia refugee camp "may amount to war crimes".