A group of UN experts on Monday expressed “grave” concern over Israeli military attacks affecting sites sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza and a renewed pattern of forced displacement in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. “This cycle of displacement, terror, and targeted attacks serves an ultimate purpose: to make life unbearable for Palestinians and permanently force them from their land,” they said in a statement. They warned that βtargeting areas known to shelter displaced civilians is a grave breach of international humanitarian law.β The experts cited a March 11 Israeli strike near the Qatari Committee building in western Gaza City that ignited a fire spreading to tents sheltering internally displaced persons. They also reported that shelling of tents […]
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