North Korea slams Israel for turning Gaza into 'huge human slaughterhouse,' 'massacring children'

In a statement on Friday, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said "Israel's horrific crime of killing the bud-like children, yet to be bloomed, is a severe challenge to the future of humankind and a crime against humanity."

"It is no exaggeration to say that the whole Gaza Strip has turned into a huge human slaughterhouse and a place of massacring children," the ministry continued. "Soon after the end of the bombardment, [Israel Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the Israeli authorities are trying to conceal their crime of killing even the children."

It added that international news outlets are "strongly condemning Israel for continuing to massacre children, pointing at Israel as a culprit of expulsion of Palestinians, illegal settlement expansion and sowing the seeds of hatred by suppressing their peaceful praying ceremony."

The remarks came on June 4, which the United Nations designated as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, to mark Israel's "acts of aggression" against a "great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims" in August 1982.
 

The latest clash between Israel and Hamas in Gaza demolished thousands of businesses and houses, displacing over 100,000 people in the territory. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said about 240 Palestinians were killed in 11 days of conflict.