Israel planning 'large scale massacre' in Gaza City, Unrwa chief says

Israel appears to be planning a large scale "massacre" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza City, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said.

Lazzarini said Israel's labelling of 250,000 Palestinians trapped in Gaza City as ‘terrorists or terror supporters’ is likely cover for a wholescale killing of them.

"[This] is a statement suggesting planned large scale massacres: killing more women, children, elderly and vulnerable people unable to move out,” Lazzarini said in a social media post.

“No one has the license to kill civilians. Ongoing international crimes in Gaza cannot continue to be implicitly tolerated. More inaction will lead to more complicity to what the UN Commission of Inquiry has already concluded is genocide. Time to act," he said.