Middle East crisis live: UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals | Israel-Gaza war

Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has found. Israeli allegations of the involvement of Unrwa staff in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel led major donors in January to cut their funding to the agency.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has rejected the idea that Washington might have a “double standard” when applying US law to allegations of abuses by the Israeli military in Gaza,…