To be investigated...not yet a fact.UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
2 days agoBy David Gritten,BBC News
ReutersThe UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by...... reports of "mass graves" being found at the sites after Israeli raids.
Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the deaths.
Palestinian officials said they had exhumed 283 bodies at Nasser, some with their hands tied. It is not clear how they died or when they were buried.
Israel's military said claims that it buried bodies there were "baseless".
But it did say that during a two-week operation at the hospital in the city of Khan Younis in February, troops "examined" bodies buried by Palestinians "in places where intelligence indicated the possible presence of hostages".
Testimony from a number of released hostages who were held at Nasser hospital places 10 hostages in total there, one of whom remains in captivity.
The head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territories also said he did not have "solid evidence" that bodies were found in the graves with their hands tied.
Ajith Sunghay told the BBC that while he had seen some photographs of bodies with hands tied, the evidence did not meet the standard of proof required by the UN and so could not be stated as a fact.
