Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said that Israel is practicing collective punishment in Gaza and has no right to violate international law.

The British PA Media agency reported that the Irish Prime Minister also called for opening a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach the Palestinians.

"Israel has the right to defend itself, but Israel does not have the right to injustice," Varadkar told Radio and Television Ireland. He expressed his concern about what he sees happening in Gaza at the present time.

He explained that Israel is violating humanitarian law by punishing Palestinian civilians, and that Ireland will seek to open a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach Gaza.

Israel is waging a violent war on the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 1,537 martyrs and 6,612 injured, at a time when the number of Israeli deaths at the hands of the Palestinian resistance since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has risen to 1,300.

Israel cut off food, water and electricity supplies to Gaza, while the United Nations rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, considered that starving the besieged population in Gaza and depriving them of necessities is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

The UN rapporteur said that a large portion of the population of the besieged Gaza Strip is being exterminated.

International humanitarian law prohibits collective punishment of a group of people for a crime committed by an individual.

Source: German News Agency