UN Human Rights Chief: Israel's Plan To Move Gazans Is Very Disturbing
JAKARTA - Turkey's United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (HAM) Volker Turk said he was deeply disturbed by Israel's plans to mass move Palestinians from Gaza.
"Very disturbed by the statement by top Israeli officials regarding the plan to transfer civilians from Gaza to a third country," he said in a post on social media platform X quoted by ANTARA from Anadolu, Thursday, January 4.
Turk menegaskan 85 persen penduduk Gaza, yang sudah mengungsi di dalam wilayahnya sendiri, berhak kembali ke rumah mereka.
International law prohibits the forced transfer of people protected or deported from occupied areas, he said, warning.
Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have expressed their support for the voluntary migration of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and urged other countries to accept them.
Gvir and Smotrich's remarks were criticized by the international community, including by the US, UK, Germany and France.
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Israel has launched relentless air and landstrikes in Gaza since Palestinian resistance group Hamas attacked the Zionist nation on October 7, which Israel says killed nearly 1,200 of its citizens.
Israel's countermeasures have killed at least 22,313 Palestinians and injured 57,296 others, according to health authorities inGaza.
A wave of Israeli attacks has caused destruction in Gaza, where 60 percent of infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million of its population displaced amid food shortages, clean water, and medicines.