Brian McDonald
Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than the previous year, as the total number of civilian deaths rose by 72%, the UN said on Tuesday.
Parties to the conflict were increasingly “pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable – and legal”, UN human rights chief Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
They are demonstrating “total contempt for each other, trampling on human rights at their core,” he said. “Killings and injuries of civilians have become a daily occurrence. Destruction of vital infrastructure is a daily occurrence.”
“Children shot. Hospitals bombed. Heavy artillery fired at entire communities. All this coupled with hateful, divisive, dehumanizing rhetoric.”
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The UN human rights chief said his office had gathered data indicating that last year, “the number of civilian deaths in armed conflicts increased by 72%”.
“Terribly, the data indicates that the proportion of women killed in 2023 has doubled and that of children has tripled, compared to the previous year,” he said.
At the Gaza stripTurk said he was “horrified by the disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law by parties to the conflict” and the “unjustified death and suffering.”
Since war broke out following Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, he said that “more than 120,000 people in Gaza, overwhelmingly women and children, have been killed or injured… as a result of the intense Israeli offensives.”
“Since Israel intensified its operations in Rafah in early May, nearly a million Palestinians have again been forcibly displaced, while aid delivery and humanitarian access have deteriorated further,” he said.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Tuesday that Israel’s military offensive in the besieged enclave has killed more than 37,372 Palestinians and injured 85,452 since the start of the war. The ministry does not distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties.
The need for aid increases, but funding is not
Turk also pointed to a number of other conflicts, including in Ukrainethe Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria.
Is at SudanIn the grip of a civil war that has lasted more than a year, he warned that the country “is being destroyed before our eyes by two warring parties and affiliated groups… (who) have flagrantly rejected the rights of their own people.” . .”
This devastation comes at a time when funding to help the growing number of people in need is dwindling.
“At the end of May 2024, the gap between humanitarian financing needs and available resources was $40.8 billion,” Turk said. “Resources are only 16.1% funded on average,” he said.
“Compare this to the nearly $2.5 trillion in global military spending in 2023, a 6.8% increase in real terms over 2022,” Turk said, stressing that “this was the steepest annual increase since 2009.” ”.
“In addition to inflicting unbearable human suffering, war takes a heavy toll,” he said.
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