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The United Nations rights chief yesterday voiced alarm at the overt “genocidal rhetoric” by Israeli officials about Gaza and called for decisive international action to “end the carnage”.

He said the occupied Palestinian territory was already “a graveyard”.

In his opening address to the UN Human Rights Council’s 60th session, Volker Turk slammed “Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza (and) its infliction of indescribable suffering and wholesale destruction”.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn yesterday killed at least 40 people and destroyed another high-rise in Gaza City.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed a 12-floor block in the middle of Gaza City where dozens of displaced families had been housed, three hours after urging those inside and in hundreds of tents in the surrounding area to leave.

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