News - Middle East: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Secretary General Christopher Lockyear says Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza.

Lockyear also said on Thursday that Israel is exhibiting "signs of ethnic cleansing" in its military offensive in the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli military is “destroying the conditions of life” in Gaza through 14 months of attacks on civilians, dismantling the healthcare system and infrastructure, and denying humanitarian aid, the aid organization said.

“We are seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed,” Lockyear said in a statement.

“What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground throughout this conflict is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza,” he added.

Last week, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for a long-overdue end to the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

A total of 158 countries voted in favor of the resolution on December 11.

The resolution urges "an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza.

In a new report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has concluded that Israel is guilty of the crime of extermination and acts of genocide in Gaza,

The US-based human rights organization found that Israel has inflicted conditions of life in Gaza calculated to destroy the enclave's Palestinian population. This amounts to extermination, which is a crime against humanity, and acts of genocide.

International organizations have denounced the occupation regime for deliberately targeting civilians and causing starvation through a siege, obstruction of humanitarian aid and targeted attacks on aid workers. 

More than 45,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have so far been killed and more than 107,300 others injured since the regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October last year. 

 Source: Press TV