❗️UN INQUIRY CONCLUDES: ISRAEL COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA
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The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

After two years of investigation into events since 7 October 2023, the Commission said Israeli forces carried out four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention: mass killing, causing serious harm, deliberately inflicting life-destroying conditions, and imposing measures to prevent births.

These actions, combined with explicit statements by Israeli leaders, demonstrate clear intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.

The report said Israel’s political and military leadership — including President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — have incited and overseen genocidal acts while failing to prevent or punish them. It documented systematic starvation, destruction of healthcare and education, targeting of children and cultural sites, widespread sexual violence, and disregard for International Court of Justice orders, concluding that Israel has persisted in a “genocidal campaign” for nearly two years.

The Commission urged Israel to immediately end its actions, lift the siege, and allow full humanitarian access. It also called on all states to halt arms transfers to Israel, prosecute those complicit in genocide, and take legal measures against corporations or individuals assisting it.

Chair Navi Pillay stressed that international inaction amounts to complicity: “Every day of inaction costs lives and erodes the credibility of the international community.”