GENEVA (AP) – A team of independent experts commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council concluded that Israel is violating genocide in Gaza and issued a report on Tuesday calling for the international community to take steps to end the genocide and punish those responsible.
The in-depthly documented findings by a team of three Latest accusations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocide against the government Rights Advocate Israel continues its war with Hamas in Gaza, which killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what it called a “skewed falsehood” report.
The Committee on Inquisition on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, created four years ago It has been repeatedly documented Since the fatal attack on October 7, 2023, alleged human rights violations and violations in Gaza, attacks in Israel led by Hamas and other Palestinian regions.
Neither the committee working within the UN system nor the 47-member parliamentary assembly can take action against the country, but the findings can be used by prosecutors of the International Criminal Court or the United Nations International Court of Justice.
The report also corresponds to the final message from a team led by former UN main Navi Pillay, who served as a judge at Rwanda’s International Criminal Court. All three members announced they would resign in July. I’ll quote personal reasons And the need for change.
The team was commissioned by the Human Rights Council, a UN human rights organization, but it doesn’t talk about the United Nations.
Israel has refused to cooperate with the committee And condemned it, the HRC biased anti-Israel bias. Earlier this year, the Trump administration, a key Israeli alliance; It has separated the US from the council.
After a painstaking legal analysis, the committee stated that Israel committed four of the five “genocide acts” defined under the international treaty adopted in 1948, colloquially known as the “genocide treaty.” Three years after World War II and the Holocaust.
“The committee has found that Israel is responsible for the Genocide Committee in Gaza,” the committee chair said. “It is clear that they intend to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza through conduct that meets the standards set out in the Genocide Convention.”
“The responsibility for the atrocities lies with the highest class of Israeli authorities in nearly two years of war,” said Pillay, a former UN human rights director.
Her committee concluded that Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog and former defense minister had incited the Genocide Commission. It has not been evaluated whether other Israeli leaders did that either.
Established in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Israel has defied genocide allegations against it as an anti-Semitic “bloody defamation.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry announced its angry response on Tuesday, saying it “resolutely refused this distorted false report.”
“The three individuals who represent Hamas are well-known for their openly anti-Semitic positions, and their horrifying statements about Jews have been criticised around the world — has released another fake “report” about Gaza today.”
The genocide accusations are particularly sensitive in Israel. Israel was founded as a Jewish heaven in the wake of the Holocaust, and memories of the Holocaust still play an important role in the country’s national identity.
In reaching the conclusion of the genocide, the committee said the actions of Israeli security forces and “explicit statements” by Israeli civilians and military authorities were among other standards.
In particular, experts cited the “complete siege” of Gaza, Israel, as a factor in humanitarian aid that “complete siege” of starvation, “systematically destroying” the health care system and leading to direct targeting of children.
The committee urged other countries to halt the transfer of arms to Israel and block individuals or businesses from actions that could contribute to Gaza’s genocide.
“The international community cannot remain silent about the genocide campaign launched by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza,” said Pillay, a South African jurist. “When clear signs and evidence of genocide appear, the lack of action to stop it is equivalent to accomplice.”
Volker Türk, the current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned Israel’s actions of war in Gaza and forced her to speak against alleged crimes, but has not accused Israel of carrying out genocide.
His office, which hints at international law, argues that only the international courts can make the final formal decision of genocide. Critics could argue that it could take years and in the meantime, thousands of people in Gaza, many of them, have been systematically killed in Gaza.
The International Court of Justice is listening Genocide Case It was submitted by South Africa against Israel.
