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Israel conducting 'genocidal campaign' against Gaza, UN envoy says
11 October 2023 00:31 BST
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations on Tuesday slammed Israel for conducting a “genocidal” campaign against Gaza.
“These acts constitute war crimes,” Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour wrote in a letter to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, reported by Reuters.
Israel's defence minister said the country was fighting human animals as he announced the blockade to stop food and fuel reaching Gaza, home to 2.3 million people.
“Such blatant dehumanization and attempts to bomb a people into submission, to use starvation as a method of warfare, and to eradicate their national existence are nothing less than genocidal,” Mansour wrote.