Israel’s motion within the Gaza Strip quantity to a genocide, a United Nations fee stated in a report launched on Tuesday, a discovering that an Israeli ministry rejected as “faux.”
The Impartial Worldwide Fee of Inquiry, which operates below the U.N Human Rights Council, additionally wrote in a 72-page report that it discovered that some “statements made by Israeli authorities are direct proof of genocidal intent.”
“Moreover, on the idea of circumstantial proof, the Fee finds that genocidal intent was the one affordable inference that might be drawn based mostly on the sample of conduct of the Israeli authorities,” the report stated.
Chair of the Impartial Worldwide Fee of Inquiry South African choose Navi Pillay, proper, speaks throughout a press convention in Geneva on Sept. 16, 2025.
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It added, “Thus, the Fee concludes that the Israeli authorities and Israeli safety forces have the genocidal intent to destroy, in entire or partially, the Palestinians within the Gaza Strip.”
The Israeli International Ministry in an announcement sought to reject the assertions, saying the authors of the report amounted to “Hamas proxies.”
“The report depends completely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others,” the ministry stated partially in a publish on social media on Tuesday.
The report was researched and written by the Impartial Worldwide Fee of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which was shaped by the Human Proper Council in 2021, as an unbiased investigative physique.
The fee’s findings are unbiased of the proceedings on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, which might be tasked with making “a ultimate willpower sooner or later on Israel’s accountability below the Genocide Conference,” the report stated.
-ABC Information’ Somayeh Malekian, Jordana Miller and Kevin Shalvey
