A United Nations envoy condemns a deadly Israeli airstrike on Hamas officials in a humanitarian zone in Gaza, which Hamas officials claim killed at least 19 people.
“I strongly condemn today’s deadly airstrikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis where displaced people were sheltering,” the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, says in a statement.
Wennesland says international humanitarian law “must be upheld at all times,” stressing that “civilians must never be used as human shields.”
Israel has said the strike targeted three senior Hamas officials embedded within the humanitarian zone, rendering the place a legitimate military target under international law as long as all necessary precautions are taken to mitigate civilian casualties. The IDF has said it took such precautions.
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