The deputy spokesperson for the head of the UN, Farhan Haq, says “all of the parties” who have the power to allow investigators access into Gaza must agree to any potential independent probe into the mass graves discovered in the vicinity of Gaza’s two largest hospitals .
More than 300 bodies have been recovered so far from mass graves at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital, and more than 380 bodies have been recovered from Gaza City’s al-Shifa Medical Complex, according to civil defense crews. International outcry and demands from an independent probe are quickly growing.
“For any investigations to be effective, all of the parties in the area that control access sufficient to conduct investigations would need to agree to it,” Haq told Al Jazeera, when asked at a press briefing by our reporter Gabriel Elizondo.
This means Israel, which has been widely accused of being responsible for the mass graves, must agree to cooperate with the investigation.
“There’s always difficulties in terms of places where conflict has occurred, to get the access we need, but ultimately for any investigation to be meaningful, you need that access,” Haq said.
Haq reiterated that an “independent, effective and transparent investigation” into the killings at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals must be conducted.
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