Israel has performed a genocide in Gaza, says UN investigation

The United Nations Investigation Commission says Israel has committed a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

A new report is said that there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined in international law have been committed since the beginning of the war with Hamas in 2023: Killer members of the group, causing them severe bodily and mental harm, deliberately causing the conditions, calculated to destroy the group and pre -destroy the group.

He cites statements from Israeli leaders and the model of behavior of Israeli forces as evidence of genocidal intention.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denying it as “distorted and incorrect”.

A spokesman has accused the three experts of the committee of serving as “Hamas Proxies” and relying “entirely on Hamas’ lies, exams and repeated by others,” who “were already debunked.”

“In complete contrast to the lies in the report, Hamas is a party trying to genocide in Israel – killing 1,200 people, raping women who burn families alive and openly declares its goal of killing every Jew,” they added.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an unprecedented attack, led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which about 1200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

At least 64,905 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the health ministry in the territory.

The bigger part of the population has also been displaced repeatedly; More than 90% of homes are estimated to be damaged or destroyed; Health, water, sanitary and hygiene systems have collapsed; And the UN -backed food experts declared hunger in Gaza.

The independent international investigative committee on the occupied Palestinian territory was established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate all suspected violations of international legislation on humanitarian and human rights.

The three -member expert panel is chaired by Navi Pilee, a former head of the South African Chief of Human Rights, who was president of the International Rwanda Genocide Tribunal.

The Last Commission Report He claims that the Israeli authorities and the Israeli forces have carried out four of the five acts of genocide defined in accordance with the 1948 Genocide Convention against a national, ethnic, racial or religious group – in the case of the Palestinians in Gaza:

• Killing group members through attacks against protected sites; aimed at civilians and other protected persons; and deliberate application of conditions causing deaths
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to group members through direct attacks against civilians and protected objects; severe abstraction of detainees; forced displacement; and the destruction of the environment
• Intentionally applying living conditions calculated to lead to the destruction of the group in whole or in part by the destruction of structures and land, essential to the Palestinians; destruction and refusal of access to medical services; forced displacement; blocking of basic help, water, electricity and fuel from reaching Palestinians; reproductive violence; and specific conditions affecting children
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births Through the December 2023 attack, against the largest Gaza fertility clinic, reporting that it destroys about 4,000 embryos and 1000 samples of sperm and non -fertilized eggs

In order to fulfill the legal definition of the genocide under the genocide Convention, it must also be established that the perpetrator has performed any of these actions with a specific intention to destroy the group in whole or in part.

The Commission says it has analyzed statements made by Israeli leaders and claims that President Isaac Duke, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Joab Gallant have “stimulated the Genocide Committee.”

It also states that “the genocidal intention was the only reasonable conclusion” that can be completed by the model of behavior of Israeli authorities and Gaza Security Forces.

The Commission says the model of behavior involves deliberate murder and seriously harms an unprecedented number of Palestinians using heavy ammunition; systematic and widespread attacks against religious, cultural and educational sites; and imposing a siege of gas and starvation of its population.

The Israeli government insists that its efforts are focused solely on dismantling Hamas’s capabilities, not Gaza’s people. It states that his forces act in accordance with international law and take all possible measures to mitigate the harm of civilians.

“As early as October 7, 2023, Prime Minister Netanyahu swore to apply …” Mighty revenge “in” all places where Hamas is located, hiding and operating this wicked city, we will turn them into rubble, “Pali said in an interview with the BBC.

“The use of the phrase” wicked city “in the same statement suggested that he had seen the whole city of Gaza (Gaza) as a responsible purpose for revenge. And he told the Palestinians to “leave now because we would work forcibly everywhere.”

She added: “It took us two years to gather all the actions and to make factual findings, to check that this happened … Only the facts will direct you. And you can only bring it to the genocide Convention if these actions are done with that intention.”

The Commission says the acts of Israeli political and military leaders are “attributed to the State of Israel” and that the state is therefore “responsible for the inability to prevent genocide, the genocide committee and the failure to punish genocide.”

He also warns that all other countries have an immediate obligation under the genocide Convention to “prevent and punish the crime of the genocide” using all measures they have. If they don’t, they write, they could be complicit.

“We haven’t gone so far as to point the parties as co -conspiracies or to be complicit in the genocide. But this is … the continuing work of this committee. They will get there,” Pilai said.

A number of international and Israeli human rights organizations, independent UN and scientists have also accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The International Court (ICJ), meanwhile, is considering a case brought by South Africa, which accuses the Israeli Genocide forces. Israel called the case “entirely unfounded” and on the basis of “prejudiced and false statements”.