The U.N. human rights chief on Monday expressed alarm over explicit "genocidal rhetoric" from Israeli officials regarding Gaza, accused Israel of war crimes, and urged decisive international action to "end the carnage."
Volker Türk said the occupied Palestinian territory was already "a graveyard."
In his opening address to the U.N. Human Rights Council's 60th session, Türk slammed "Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza (and) its infliction of indescribable suffering and wholesale destruction."
"Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; its infliction of indescribable suffering and wholesale destruction; its hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid and the ensuing starvation of civilians; its killing of journalists, U.N. staff and NGO workers and its commission of war crime upon war crime, are shocking the conscience of the world," he said.
"I am horrified by the open use of genocidal rhetoric and the disgraceful dehumanization of Palestinians by senior Israeli officials."
