from PressTV
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has warned that the Israeli regime appears to be planning a “large-scale massacre” in Gaza City amid a strict siege and extensive military attacks.
Lazzarini issued the warning after Israel threatened all residents of Gaza City, saying that Palestinians remaining there would be considered “terrorists” or “terrorist supporters.”
The UN official said such statements raise fears of mass killings. “[This] is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres: killing more women, children, elderly and vulnerable people unable to move out.”
He stressed that no authority has “the license to kill civilians” and cautioned that continued inaction would amount to complicity in what UN investigators have already called genocide.
The remarks come as Gaza faces relentless bombardment and siege...
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