Destroying ‘wantonly’ to create Gaza buffer zone is ‘war crime,’ UN rights chief says

Israel’s reported ongoing destruction of all buildings along the border inside Gaza with the aim of creating a “buffer zone” is a war crime, the UN rights chief warns.

Israel’s “extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and a war crime,” Volker Turk says in a statement.

LINK: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/destroying-wantonly-to-create-gaza-buffer-zone-is-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says/

 

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