UN rights chief calls for immediate halt to Israel’s Gaza takeover plan

Israel’s plan for a complete takeover of Gaza “must be immediately halted”, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said, Al Jazeera reported. 

UN rights chief warns governments may be complicit in “international crimes” if they don’t pressure

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has urged governments around the world to pressure Israel to end its assault on Gaza – and said those that don’t use their “leverage” may be complicit in “international crimes”, the Guardian reported. 

By Wesam Bahrani

Occupation regime kills 45 Gazans seeking food

TEHRAN – Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and many others injured while attempting to access food in Gaza.

Global consensus on human rights is crumbling, UN rights chief says

The UN human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has never before been under so much strain, calling for an effort to reinforce it or risk suffering the atrocities of the past.