UN Human Rights experts asked, this Monday, November 27, 2023, the opening of independent surveys on the “allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity” by all the parties since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7.
In a press release, Morris Tidball-Binz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, and Alice Jill Edwards, special rapporteur on torture, both mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, underline the need for these investigations to be “rapid, transparent and independent”.
“Independent investigators must receive the resources, support and access necessary to conduct rapid, in-depth and impartial surveys on the crimes that would have been committed by all parties to the conflict,” asked Mr. Tidball-Binz and Ms. Jill Edwards, in the press release.
The Gaza Strip is besieged and devastated by seven weeks of Israeli bombing which made more than 15 thousand martyrs, including 6,150 aged under the age of 18, killed by Israeli strikes.
The two UN rapporteurs call on the international community to ensure that all those responsible for the most serious human rights violations – in particular those in command posts – are “quickly translated into justice”.
