Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The United Nations Investigation Commission said that Israel has been genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

A new report says that there are reasonable reasons to conclude that four of the five genocide action defined within the scope of international law have been carried out since the beginning of the war in 2023: killing the members of a group, preventing the conditions and deliberate conditions that cause serious physical and mental damages.

He refers to the statements of Israeli leaders and the pattern of behavior as proof of the genocide intention of Israeli forces.

Israel said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the report categorically and condemned it as “distorted and wrong”.

A spokesman accused three experts of serving as “deputies of Hamas” and relying on the mistakes of Hamas, repeated by others, “completely washed and” already refuted “.

“Contrary to the lies in the report, Hamas is the party that attempts to genocide in Israel – killing 1,200 people, raping women, burning families alive and killing every Jew.”

The Israeli Army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas, which is unseen in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

According to the Ministry of Health, operated by Hamas in the region, at least 64,905 people have died in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then.

Most of the population was repeatedly displaced; It is estimated that more than 90% of the houses are damaged or destroyed; Health services, water, sanitation and hygiene systems collapsed; and UN -backed food safety experts declared famine in Gaza City.

The Independent International Investigation Commission on the occupied Palestinian territory was established in 2021 to investigate all the alleged violations claimed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the claim of international human and human rights law.

The three -member expert panel is chaired by Navi Pillay, former UN Human Rights Chief of South African, president of Rwanda’s Genocide International Court.

The last report of the commission He claims that Israeli officials and Israeli forces commit four of the five genocide action defined against a national, ethnic, racial or religious group within the scope of the 1948 genocide agreement – Palestinians in Gaza:

• Group’s killing members through attacks on protected objects; targeting civilians and other protected people; and the deliberate emergence of the conditions that cause deaths
• To cause serious physical or mental damage to group members through direct attacks on civilians and protected objects; serious ill -treatment of the detainees; forced displacement; and environmental destruction
• The living conditions calculated to ensure that the group is completely or partially destroyed With the destruction of the structures and soils necessary for the Palestinians; Destruction and rejection of access to medical services; forced displacement; Basic aid, water, electricity and fuel from reaching the Palestinians; Reproductive violence; and certain conditions affecting children
• It gives measures to prevent births In December 2023, the attack on the largest fertility clinic of Gaza reportedly destroyed approximately 4,000 embryos and 1,000 sperm samples and the other without the other

In order to fulfill the legal definition of the genocide within the scope of the genocide agreement, it should be determined that the perpetrator performs any of these actions with a certain intention to partially or partially destroy the group.

The Commission claims that he has analyzed the statements made by Israeli leaders and President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant “provoked the genocide commission”.

He also says that “the intention of genocide, which can result in the pattern of behavior of Israeli officials and security forces in Gaza, is the only reasonable inference”.

The Commission involves intentionally killing an unprecedented number of Palestinians who use heavy ammunition and serious harm; Systematic and widespread attacks on religious, cultural and educational fields; And siege to Gaza and leaving the population hungry.

The Israeli government insists that its efforts are not only directed to the Gaza people, but only to dismantle Hamas’s talents. He says that his forces operate in accordance with international law and take all applicable measures to damage civilians.

Pillay, in an interview with the BBC, “October 7, 2023 on an early date Prime Minister Netanyahu, ‘Hamas’ın deployed, hiding and operating, this bad city, this bad city, we will make them rubble’ he promised to give them.

“In the same expression, the use of ‘bad city’ implied that he saw the whole city of Gaza [Gaza City] A target for responsible and revenge. And the Palestinians ‘now told them to leave because we will work everywhere’.

“It took two years to gather all the actions and to make real findings, and to confirm whether it is … This is just the facts that will direct you. And only these actions are done with this intention, you can bring it in accordance with the genocide contract.”

The Commission said that the actions of Israeli political and military leaders can be “attributed to the Israeli state” and that the state “genocide, genocide commission and genocide should not be punished.”

In addition, in accordance with the genocide agreement of all other countries, he warns that he has an immediate obligation to “prevent and punish the genocide crime” and all measures to use all measures. If they don’t, they can be a criminal partner.

“We did not call the parties as a spouse conspiracy or called a criminal partner in genocide. But this … This commission’s ongoing work. They will go there.” He said.

A number of international and Israeli human rights organizations, independent UN experts and academics accused Israel against genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) hears a case that blames South Africa’s genocide forces of Israel. Israel called the case based on “completely unfounded” and “prejudiced and wrong claims”.