UN calls on Israel to stop killing people in Gaza | Israel-Palestine War News

Reviewing the situation in the occupied West Bank, the UN chief called on Israel to ‘end its illegal presence in the Palestinian territories’.

The United Nations has urged Israel to ban “acts of murder” in Gaza and expressed concern about “ethnic cleansing” throughout the Palestinian territories and the occupied West Bank.

A new report investigating Israel’s military operations in Gaza until May 2025 and published by the UN Human Rights Office on Monday said that Israel has committed “serious violations of international humanitarian law, which often amount to war crimes and other atrocities”.

Several investigations, including about IS and International Association of Genocide ScholarsIt is confirmed that Israel’s war on this small area has resulted in the death of people, and about 73,000 people have been killed according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The UN report said that while the Israeli army wanted the return of “captives” and some attacks involved armed groups, many of these killings were “unlawful”.

The war that Israel launched after the 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian militias – which killed around 1,200 and saw 240 taken prisoner – was halted by a ceasefire in October. But the Israeli army maintains a tight security presence, and hundreds have been killed in the past seven months.

Conflict monitors warn that since the end of the war with Iran last month, Israel Bombings in the Gaza Strip have increased. Violent attacks on civilians and soldiers in the The West Bank is also increasing.

The UN report warned that Israel’s “concerted and rapid destruction of Palestinian life while including the annexation of large parts” of the occupied territories represented a very difficult course of action.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Israel to “stop the genocide”, ensure that Palestinian refugees are allowed to return, and “end their illegal presence in the Palestinian territories”.

The report also condemned Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for “violating international human rights …

Regarding the current situation, Ajith Sunghay, head of UN Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said at a press conference on Monday that the cessation of hostilities did not bring “a proper response” or “any reckoning with the driving force – a long task”.

Regarding the violence in the West Bank, he said: “The Israeli army and police are regularly killing more and more Palestinians with impunity, often together.

“Impunity only increases recidivism,” Sunghay said. “Many of the horrors documented here, and those documented decades before, have gone unpunished, with no hope of justice for those involved.”