A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide. A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out. Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as “distorted and false”. An Israeli spokesperson accused the three experts on the UN commission of serving as “Hamas proxies”.
GAZA CITY SEPTEMBER 16: A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Various scholars have argued that intent to destroy is proven by the statements of Israeli officials and by Israel’s policies and conduct.
A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as “distorted and false”.
An Israeli spokesperson accused the three experts on the UN commission of serving as “Hamas proxies” and relying “entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others” that had “already been thoroughly debunked”.
According to a United Nations special committee and commission of inquiry, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, International Federation for Human Rights, numerous genocide studies and international law scholars (including the International Association of Genocide Scholars), and many other experts, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians during its ongoing blockade, invasion, and bombing of the Gaza Strip.
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