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Shock and Outrage following Israeli atrocities in Occupied Palestine

GENOCIDE: UN human rights chief horrified by reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals. In the aftermath of the American-Israeli bloodbath in Gaza, Occupied Palestine, hundreds of bodies of women and the elderly and others with their hands trussed behind their backs, were discovered in a Palestinian medical facility.

Western media was quick to delete or downplay the horrifying scenes of heinous barbarities.

UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that he was horrified by the destruction of the Nasser and Al-Shifa medical facilities in Gaza by Israeli troops and reports of mass graves discovered there, several of which are yet to be investigated.

Mainstream media heads have told journalists and sub-editors are switching to comparatively trivial stories. This leaves only social media and blogs like Europe Renaissance to inform the horrified world of the inhumanity of the Israeli Defense Forces

Palestinian authorities reported finding scores of bodies in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis this week after it was abandoned by the IDF. Bodies were also reported at the Al-Shifa site following an Israeli special forces operation.

According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Emergency Service, cited by Reuters, a total of 310 bodies had been found so far in just one mass grave at the Nasser Hospital, the main health facility in southern Gaza.

The corpses are mostly women, children and medical staff. Two other mass graves had reportedly been identified but not yet excavated.

‘We feel the need to raise the alarm because clearly there have been multiple bodies discovered,’ said Turk, while addressing a UN briefing via a spokesperson.

‘Some of the corpses had their hands tied, which of course indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and these need to be subjected to further investigations,’ the UN human rights chief stated.

The UN human rights office said it was working on corroborating Palestinian officials’ reports, claiming that some of the bodies were buried beneath piles of waste and included women and older people.

Israel says it was forced to battle inside hospitals because Hamas’s militants use the facilities as bases, an assertion that medical staff and the militant group itself deny. Turk also decried Israeli strikes on Gaza in recent days, which he said had killed mostly women and children.

The UN rights chief once again warned Israel against a full-scale incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where some 1.4 million displaced Palestinians have sought refuge since the beginning of the Hamas-Israel conflict. The offensive could lead to ’further atrocity crimes,’ Turk cautioned.

During the Israeli offense in response, at least 34,183 Palestinians have been killed and 77,143 injured, mostly women and children, according to the local health authorities. Thousands more bodies likely remain uncounted under the rubble across the devastated enclave, local authorities believe.

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