“The Commission additionally finds that Israel has failed to forestall and punish the fee of genocide, by failure to analyze genocidal acts and to prosecute alleged perpetrators,” Pillay added.
The 72-page report finds that Israeli authorities and safety forces dedicated 4 of the 5 genocidal acts outlined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. They embrace killing; critical bodily or psychological hurt; intentionally inflicting situations of life calculated to deliver in regards to the destruction of the Palestinians in entire or partially; and imposing measures meant to forestall births.
The report relies on the fee’s prior investigations, factual and authorized findings in regards to the Israeli assault on Gaza, the conduct and statements of Israeli authorities — and on a examination of underlying genocidal intent and genocide.
The Israeli overseas ministry instantly rejected the report, calling it “faux and distorted.”
“The report depends totally on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others … Israel categorically rejects this distorted and false report and requires the instant abolition of this Commission of Inquiry,” the ministry mentioned in a put up on X.
The U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, together with East Jerusalem, and Israel has been investigating battle within the space because the Oct. 7, 2023 assaults through which Hamas militants killed some 1,200 individuals on Israeli soil and took round 250 hostages into Gaza. Since then, tens of hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and shootings within the coastal enclave.
Both advocacy group Amnesty International and European Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera have known as Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide.
Israel’s ongoing battle has led to a number of European international locations saying they may acknowledge Palestinian statehood on the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
