The Red Cross Chef says Gaza is “hell on the ground” with the continued Israeli attack

BBC, Chairman of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told BBC that Gaza has become “hell on the ground”, with Israel’s military attack continued there.

The comments of Mirgana Spulgrock come on the same day that the United Nations Human Rights Office warned that Israel’s tactics threaten the survival of Palestinians who continue to live in Gaza at all.

The ICRC is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions – the rules of internationally agreed behavior in the war – and it usually speaks quickly to the warring parties when it believes that violations are taking place.

But Mrs. Spoljaric now said that what is happening in Gaza is “very hollow” from international law.

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza says that the Israeli bombing has killed 1542 people since it renewed the war on March 18. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also released evacuation orders that forced nearly 400,000 people to move. Israel also imposed a full siege when entering food, medical supplies and all other commodities since March 2.

Israel is always insisting that it always follows the international law in Gaza, and it has also argued that the special nature of this conflict, with the Hamas fighters hiding hiding among the civilian population, may sometimes happen.

Israeli ministers insist on having enough food in Gaza and say to bomb The seizure of the lands It aims to pressure Hamas to issue hostages who still keep it, who were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 attack.

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the powers of the occupation, as in Israel in Gaza, must ensure that civilians have food and medicine, and to protect hospitals and health workers. The agreement also prohibits the forced transport of the entire population from the occupied lands.

“There is no state, no party in the conflict … it can be exempted from commitment to not committing war crimes, not committing genocide, and not committing ethnic cleansing,” said Ms. Spolgaric.

“These rules apply. They are universal.”

She added that civilians were bearing the pursuit of military targets, as it was going down several times, and their homes moved to the rubble.

Of the 36 recent air strikes verified by the United Nations Human Rights Office, all the dead were women and children.

Israel strongly denied accusations that it was committing genocide or genocide in Gaza.

The Israeli army said it was looking into an attack by one family in Khan Yunis and said it had hit 40 “terrorist targets” through the region during the past day.

ICRC comments are the latest in the anxiety choir coming from the United Nations and other agencies.

On Friday, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Office, Ravenna Shamdasani, said that the “cumulative influence” of the behavior of the Israeli Defense Army means that “the office is seriously concerned that Israel seems to shy the Palestinians in the conditions of life in Gaza increasing with its constant presence as a group in Gaza.”

She added that Israel continues to bomb tents in the Maousy area, which it asked people to go for their own safety.

On Tuesday, the Secretary -General of the United Nations warned this The Israeli blockade in Gaza violated the Geneva Conventions The region became a “killing field.” On Monday, the heads of six United Nations relief agencies appealed to the world to act to save the people of Gaza and support the basic international law.

the Geneva Conventions Founded on the following principles:

• The medical staff and hospitals in the wars must be protected and allowed to work freely
• Those wounded are entitled to battle and no longer fight medical treatment
• He must treat prisoners of war in humanity
• The warring parties are committed to protecting civilians (this includes a ban on targeting civil infrastructure such as power and water supply).

Twenty years ago, in what he called its war on terrorism, the United States suggested that the Geneva Conventions may be old in the modern war, but the ICRC insists on its application in all circumstances.

“It is not transactions,” said Ms. Spulgrock. “You have to comply with these rules regardless of what the other side does.”

She appealed to the renewal of the ceasefire, noting that during a previous period in the fighting, the ICRC managed to remove the Israeli hostages from Gaza and unite them with their families.

But she also warned of increasing “ignoring” during the war, as the international community was sending even though clear war crimes were committed.

She pointed out that the Geneva Conventions that protect civilians were established after the Second World War, as she indicated, to ensure that such a neglect did not happen again. Reducing or abandoning them sends a dangerous sign that “everything is permitted.”

ICRC believes that adhering to the rules of war can eventually help build a more sustainable peace. Once the fighting stops, thinking remembers, both soldiers and civilians will remember whether those on the other side will obey international law, or whether they are committing atrocities.

But Gaza, Mrs. Spoljaric believes, “We will chase us. It will chase us for a long time because you cannot back away from suffering … which will continue for generations.”

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

More than 50,912 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.