UN demands probe into Gaza aid center killings

The United Nations has called for an immediate and impartial probe into aid sites set up by the US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, amid continuing chaotic scenes during its aid distribution, which turned deadly on Tuesday, claiming at least 27 lives and injuring dozens.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called the attacks "unconscionable".

"The threat of starvation, together with 20 months of killing of civilians and destruction on a massive scale, repeated forced displacements, and intolerable dehumanizing rhetoric and threats by Israel's leadership to empty the strip of its population, also constitute elements of the most serious crimes under international law," he added.