Israel appears to be planning a large-scale massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza City, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini charged on Oct. 2. Lazzarini said Israel’s labelling of 250,000 Palestinians trapped in Gaza City as “terrorists or terror supporters” is likely cover for wholesale killing.
”[This] is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres: killing more women, children, elderly and vulnerable people unable to move out,” Lazzarini said in a social media post. “No one has the license to kill civilians. Ongoing international crimes in Gaza cannot continue to be implicitly tolerated. More inaction will lead to more complicity to what the UN Commission of Inquiry has already concluded is genocide. Time to act,” he insisted.
