Hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk have written to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter.
The letter sent on Wednesday said the staff consider that the legal criteria for genocide in the nearly two-year Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip have been met, citing the scale, scope and nature of violations documented there.
"OHCHR has a strong legal and moral responsibility to denounce acts of genocide," said the letter signed by the Staff Committee on behalf of more than 500 employees, which called on Turk to take a "clear and public position."
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