GAZA CITY: Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of committing a `live-streamed genocide` against Palestinians by forcibly displacing Gazans and creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory.

E choing global concern after more than 18 months of conflict, the United Nations` rights chief Volker Turk meanwhile called on the international community to launch `concerted efforts` to end Israel`s total aid blockade on the Gaza Strip, in effect since early March.

Rights group Amnesty, in its annual report, said Israel was acting with `specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide`.

`States watched on as if powerless, as Israel killed thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire multigenerational families, destroying homes, livelihoods, hospitals and schools`, Amnesty`s secretary general Agnes Callamard said.

`Extreme`suffering On the ground, Gaza`s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least seven people, four of whom in a tent encampment for displaced Palestinians in the territory`s south. Widad Fojo, who lost relatives in one of the strikes, said he was tired of the violence.

`I just want to lay my head on a pillow and sleep. We don`t want to be collecting remains` of the dead, he said. Amnesty said it had `documented multiple war crimes by Israel` including attacks on civilians, and that Israel had `deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe`. The London-based rights group said 1.9 million people about 90 per cent of Gaza`s population had been forcibly displaced during the confict. The UN has cited similar figures.

Children starving Turk, the UN rights chief, said the `humanitarian catastrophe` in Gaza must be stopped. `There must be concerted international efforts to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching a new unseen level,` he said in a statement.

`Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza`.

The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said children and the sick were the most vulnerable.-AFP