Human rights official steps down, says UN powerless to prevent Gaza genocide

Director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Craig Mokhiber has left his post, leaving a scathing letter saying that the UN has been powerless to prevent yet another genocide.

Mokhiber shared his farewell letter, addressed to UN High Commissioner in Geneva Volker Turk, with journalists and activists who posted it on X (formerly known as Twitter).

“I know well that the concept of genocide has often been subject to political abuse. But the current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial-settler ideology, in continuation...