00:00Hundreds of United Nations staff have urged its Human Rights Chief Volker Turk
00:05to call Israel's war on Gaza an unfolding genocide.
00:09In a letter seen by Reuters, more than 500 employees at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
00:15say the scale and nature of violations meet the legal threshold for genocide.
00:23The letter stressed that the UN has a legal and moral duty to denounce such acts,
00:28warning that silence undermines the credibility of both the organisation and the wider human rights system.
00:34It also pointed the UN's failure to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide when more than a million people were killed.
00:42The UN has not labelled events in Gaza as genocide, insisting such rulings belong to international courts.
00:48Turk acknowledged staff concerns, noting their moral indignation and frustration at global inaction.
00:54He called on employees to remain united despite the adversity and horrors in Gaza.
