Israel has destroyed Gaza by its relentless attacks since October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, said at the UN Human Rights Council, Al Jazeera reports.

“The harrowing number of deaths, the irreparable harm done to those who survive, the systematic destruction of every aspect necessary to sustain life in Gaza — from hospitals to schools, from homes to arable land — and the particular harm to hundreds of thousands of children and to pregnant and young mothers,” Albanese said on Tuesday.

She said in a report to the council that Israel’s actions can only be interpreted as constituting “prima facie evidence of an intention to systematically destroy the Palestinians as a group”.