UN human rights chief: Both sides have broken international law in Gaza

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, tells Weekend that both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes in the Gaza conflict. He says Israel’s evacuation orders amount to forced displacements and are ‘grave breaches of international humanitarian law’.

Also on the programme: Argentinians head to the polls in one of the most divisive elections of modern times; the return of ‘panda diplomacy’ as China hints at sending the bears to American zoos to soothe relations with the US.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Catherine Nicholson, European Affairs Editor for the France 24 TV network, and Nicholas Westcott, professor of practice in diplomacy at the SOAS University of London.

(IMAGE: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk attends a press conference in Amman, Jordan November 10, 2023. CREDIT: REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni)