「最も重大な国際犯罪を想起」 国連事務次長補、ガザ攻撃を非難

【米国ＡＦＰ＝時事】国連人道問題調整室（ＯＣＨＡ）のジョイス・ムスヤ事務次長補は１２日、パレスチナ自治区ガザで連日、爆撃を実施しているイスラエルの行為について「最も重大な国際犯罪を想起させる」と安全保障理事会で非難した。（写真はイスラエル軍の避難指示を受け、パレスチナ自治区ガザ北部ベイトハヌンの避難所からジャバリアに向かう避難民）
　ムスヤ氏は、ガザの住民は家を追われ、「目の前で、家族が殺され、燃やされ、生き埋めにされている」と述べ、ガザは「がれきに覆われた不毛の地」になっていると続けた。
　また「７０％を超える民間住宅が損害を受けたか破壊されたかの状態にある中、どのような区別がなされ、どのような予防措置が取られたと言えるのか」と指摘し、「われわれは最も重大な国際犯罪を想起させる行為を目の当たりにしている」と非難した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/13-20:00）

A top UN official on Tuesday condemned daily cruelty in Gaza, describing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes as Israel continues its daily bombardment of the Palestinian territory.
Speaking to the Security Council, Joyce Msuya, interim chief of the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), described civilians driven from their homes and forced to witness their family members killed, burned and buried alive in Gaza, which she called a wasteland of rubble.
What distinction was made, and what precautions were taken, if more than 70 percent of civilian housing is either damaged or destroyed? Msuya said. We are witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes.
The daily cruelty we see in Gaza seems to have no limits, she added.
Msuya's comments come amid an Israeli campaign in northern Gaza that she described as an intensified, extreme, and accelerated version of the horrors of the past year.
The Security Council meeting Msuya addressed was focused on a recent UN-backed report that warned of an imminent and substantial likelihood of famine.
Aid has been routinely blocked from entering the territory and international anti-poverty charity Oxfam over the weekend accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war.
October saw the lowest amount of aid entering Gaza this year, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, even as Israel announced Tuesday the opening of a new border crossing point for aid trucks.
War has raged in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel's retaliatory campaign has killed at least 43,665 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.