UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
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UN Palestinian agency chief seeks probe into treatment of Gaza staff by Israel
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called on Tuesday for countries to back an independent investigation into alleged killings and detentions of its staff and damage to its premises once the Israel-Hamas conflict ends.UNRWA has accused Israel of targeting its facilities during more than seven months of conflict in the Gaza Strip, and said 182 of its staff there had been killed and more than 160 of its shelters hit, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people fleeing...
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UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals
Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and strippedThe UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has said he was “horrified” by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies at two of Gaza’s largest hospitals.Palestinian civil defence teams began exhuming bodies from a mass grave outside the Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis last week after Israeli troops withdrew. A total of 310 bodies have been found in the last week, including 35 in the past...