UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Stresses Ending War on Gaza is Urgent Priority

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk stressed on Monday that ending the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October represents "an absolute and urgent priority," urging world countries to take action regarding what he described as the "blatant disregard" by the Israeli entity for international law in the occupied Palestinian territories. In his speech during the opening of the UN 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Turk said that ending that war and averting a full-blown regional conflict is an absolute and urgent priority. "States must not - cannot - accept blatant disregard for international law, including binding decisions of the Security Council and orders of the International Court of Justice, neither in this nor any other situation," Turk said. "Equally, the wider situation of illegality across the occupied Palestinian territory deriving from Israel's policies and practices, as so clearly spelled out by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion in July, must be comprehensively addressed," he added. The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 40,988 martyrs and 94,825 wounded, the majority of whom are children and women, amidst disregard for the UN Security Council resolutions to immediately stop this war, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent this genocide. Source: Qatar News Agency