The president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in its Gaza offensive as "genocide".
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann also told Al Jazeera he had never believed that the UN Security Council would be able to stop the violence in Gaza and that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, had practically told the UN to "mind their own business" by continuing the offensive.
"The number of victims in Gaza is increasing by the day... The situation is untenable. It's genocide," d'Escoto said at the UN in New York.
About 970 Palestinians have been killed and 4,300 injured since Israel began its Gaza offensive on December 27, which it says is to stop Palestinian fighters attacking Israel with rockets…
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UN watchdog condemns war on Gaza
A resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in Gaza has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.
The non-binding resolution, approved in Geneva on Monday, said Israel's operation had "resulted in massive violations of human rights of the Palestinian people".
More than 935 Palestinians have died during the fighting, many of them women and children, and a further 4,300 have been wounded.
At least 25,000 have been displaced due to the ongoing bombardment, but are unable to flee the overcrowded territory as crossing points remain closed…
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Israelis 'push on into Gaza City'
Israeli troops have entered the suburbs of Gaza City and are engaged in street fighting with militants, reports say.
Witnesses said Israeli special forces had advanced several hundred metres into several neighbourhoods and that intense gunfire could be heard.
Earlier, Israeli planes attacked more targets in Gaza as Israel's offensive against Hamas entered an 18th day.
A UN watchdog meanwhile accused Israel of showing a "manifest disrespect" for the protection of children in Gaza.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said more than 40% of those killed in Gaza were women or children, even though the Israeli government had signed a UN protocol condemning attacks on places where children were likely to be present.
The attacks would have a severe emotional and psychological effect on an entire generation of children in Gaza, it added…
Comment: Why the world viz UN just cannot stop the unequal war in Gaza? One day war is too much. The whole world is CRYING for what the illegal Zionist state of Israel had done all this while. Using its might, blessed by USA, the illegal state of Israel has reduced large parts of the Gaza Strip to rubble and made refugees of its inhabitants. Please ever remember that an era of continued conflict could generate a new generation of Palestinians opposed to Israel.
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