UN commissioner says killing of Gaza civilians cannot be dismissed as 'collateral damage'

Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has called for a ceasefire in Gaza based on humanitarian and human rights grounds. Speaking after the UN security council backed a resolution on 15 November calling for 'urgent extended humanitarian pauses', Turk said: 'The only winner of such a war is likely to be extremism and further extremism.' The Israel-Hamas war has left more than 11,100 Palestinians dead and displaced more than 1.5 million Gazan citizens from their homes, after Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people