GENEVA: Deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip's largest refugee camp"could amount to war crimes", the United Nations Human Rights Office said on Wednesday .twice in two days, killing and wounding dozens, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov 1, 2023. Hamas gunmen stormed across the border from Gaza on Oct 7 The principle of proportionality referred to by the UN plays a central role in the wars of law defined by the Geneva Conventions.
A crime is committed when an attack is deliberately carried out against civilians, or if the scale of the damage to civilians is excessive compared to the military advantage.