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UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals
Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and stripped
The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has said he was “horrified” by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies at two of Gaza’s largest hospitals.
Palestinian civil defence teams began exhuming bodies from a mass grave outside the Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis last week after Israeli troops withdrew. A total of 310 bodies have been found in the last week, including 35 in the past day, Palestinian officials have said.
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A senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in 'full-blown famine'
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UN alarm over rightwing laws that could ‘whitewash’ Franco era in Spain
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The political calculations of Israel's prime minister and Hamas's top leader in Gaza, both hard-liners, have left them little room to reach a compromise over the war between the two sides, posing a problem for the Biden administration.
The political calculations of Israel’s prime minister and Hamas’s top leader in Gaza, both hard-liners, have left them little room to reach a compromise over the war between the two sides, posing a problem for the Biden administration.The Wall Street Journal - World - Joe Biden
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