00:00 Humanitarian agencies alerted on Thursday about the risk of a devastating famine threatening
00:06 Gaza on a daily basis, especially more than 300,000 people in the north of the Strip.
00:12 In this sense, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the World
00:16 Food Program has warned them that the amount of humanitarian aid that the Palestinian enclave
00:21 is receiving is insufficient to prevent a famine.
00:25 Precisely, they also reported that the last time they were able to deliver food to northern
00:30 Gaza was on January 23rd, exactly 16 days ago.
00:35 On the other hand, international experts reiterate that the blockade imposed by Tel Aviv on the
00:40 humanitarian aid constitutes a war crime and adds to the accusation of genocide presented
00:46 by South Africa before the International Court of Justice.
00:55 Walter Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, emphasizes that the Israeli forces
01:00 are destroying all the buildings in the Gaza Strip that are near the fence that delimits
01:05 Israel from Gaza.
01:07 Israeli defense forces are reportedly destroying all buildings in the Gaza Strip that are within
01:13 a kilometer of the Israel-Gaza fence, clearing the area with the objective of creating a
01:19 buffer zone.
01:21 Operations carried out to create a buffer zone for general security purposes do not
01:26 appear consistent with the narrow military operations exceptions that are set out in
01:33 international humanitarian law.
01:36 Extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully
01:42 and wantonly amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime.
01:51 In this context, the Commissioner added that there has already been widespread destruction
01:55 and demolition of large-scale civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, schools and
02:01 universities in non-combat areas.
02:03 This will result in the displacement of more people.
02:08 Since October, my office has recorded widespread destruction and demolition by the IDF of civilian
02:16 and other infrastructure, including residential buildings, schools and universities in areas
02:22 in which fighting is not or no longer taking place.
02:27 Israel has not provided clear reasons for such extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure.
02:34 Such destruction of homes and other essential civilian infrastructure also results in the
02:40 displacement of communities that were living in these areas and appears to be aimed at
02:47 or has the effect of rendering the return of civilians to these areas impossible.
02:53 I remind the authorities that forcible transfer of civilians may constitute a war crime.
03:01 In Lebanon, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hezbollah reported the attack on two Israeli
