October 31, 2023 by achrilock https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/31/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-latest-news-today-hamas-clashes-idf-gaza-aid-plan-failure?page=with:block-65412f4e8f08d9386c6936fc#block-65412f4e8f08d9386c6936fc
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A senior United Nations human rights official has reportedly resigned in protest over the organisation’s handling over the situation in Gaza, where, he said, “a genocide [is] unfolding before our eyes”.
In a letter shared on social media, Craig Mokhiber, the director of the New York office of the high commissioner for human rights, said it had become “painfully clear” that the UN had failed in its duty “to meet the imperatives of prevention of mass atrocities, of protection of the vulnerable, and of accountability for perpetrators”. He wrote:
The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt or debate … Across the land, Apartheid rules.
The situation in Gaza “is a text-book case of genocide”, he continued, with the aim of the “expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine”. He added:
What’s more, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault.](https://achrilock.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/human-rights-official-1024x770.jpg)