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United Nations investigators on Tuesday accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza in a bid to “destroy the Palestinians,” blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials for incitement.
The report was immediately rejected by Israel as “distorted and false,” with Jerusalem noting its authors’ history of vehemently anti-Israeli positions.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) does not speak on behalf of the UN, and has faced harsh Israeli criticism. While it is not a legal body, its reports can influence diplomatic pressure and serve to gather evidence for later use by courts.
The commission announced it had concluded that Israel has carried out four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.”
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The report was immediately rejected by Israel as “distorted and false,” with Jerusalem noting its authors’ history of vehemently anti-Israeli positions.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) does not speak on behalf of the UN, and has faced harsh Israeli criticism. While it is not a legal body, its reports can influence diplomatic pressure and serve to gather evidence for later use by courts.
The commission announced it had concluded that Israel has carried out four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.”
UN panel claims genocide underway in Gaza; Israel blasts members as ‘Hamas proxies’
Commission of inquiry into Israel cites statements by officials, IDF's 'pattern of conduct' as evidence of intent to 'destroy Palestinians in Gaza'; barely mentions October 7
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