Some 300 prominent peace advocates released a letter on Oct. 25 calling on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the UN to end the war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, and to live up to the UN Charter.
The signers are international, with a large number of Muslims from Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Pakistan and others. It was spearheaded by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in the U.K. .
The letter reads in part:
“We are writing to you to request the UN’s urgent intervention to bring about an end to the war crimes and atrocities being carried out by Israel in its onslaught on Gaza and the West Bank.”
It then provides a comprehensive documentation of the extent of the destruction, killing and other war crimes by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, concluding:
“In the course of its assault on the densely populated Gaza Strip, Israel has wantonly violated international law by targeting civilian infrastructure. This has included residential buildings, schools, hospitals, ambulances, mosques, churches, supermarkets, roads full of fleeing people and food production plants. It has also directly targeted gatherings of civilians as it did on 17/10/2023 when it bombed the grounds of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza where displaced residents were seeking refuge and when it bombed a convoy carrying civilians to the south of Gaza on 13/10/2023.
