EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Palestinians check the bodies of victims lying down outside a hospital morgue in Gaza City a day after an Israeli strike in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees, on November 1, 2023. AFP
"Given the high number of civilian casualties and the scale of destruction following Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes," the office wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
The Israeli airstrikes on a residential complex in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least 195 Palestinians and 1,000 wounded and missing under the rubble, drawing a chorus of international condemnation.
On Tuesday evening, Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel as it condemned the Israeli war on Gaza.
On Wednesday, Jordan summoned its ambassador to Israel to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza, as well did Chile.
Also on Wednesday, the United Nations decried the Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.
"This is just the latest atrocity to befall the people of Gaza, where the fighting has entered an even more terrifying phase, with increasingly dreadful humanitarian consequences," Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, said in a statement.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "appalled over the escalating violence in Gaza, including the killing of Palestinians, including women and children in Israeli airstrikes in residential areas of the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp", his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday.
Since 7 October, the death toll among Palestinians from Israeli airstrikes and bombardment against Gaza has reached 8,800 people, including 3,600 children and 2,290 women, and the number of wounded climbed over 22,000.
The UN child rights committee also condemned the Israeli airstrikes, describing them as a "grave violation" of the human rights of children.
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