The United Nations Investigation Committee accuses Israel’s genocide in Gaza and urges global work

Geneva (AP) – A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council concluded that Israel is committing the genocide in Gaza, as it issued a report on Tuesday calling on the international community to end the genocide and work to punish those responsible for this.

Deep -documented results by the three -member team are the latest accusations of genocide against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while Israel was making its war in Gaza, which killed more than 64,000 people. Israel rejected what he called the “Distinguished and Liar” report.

The investigation committee in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, which was established four years ago, has documented alleged violations and violations of the alleged human rights in Gaza since the 2023 attacks in Israel led by Hamas, and other Palestinian areas.

Although the 47 -year -old committee, who works for the United Nations system, can take action against a country, the United Nations Criminal Court or the United Nations International Court of Justice can use.

The report also receives a final message from the team headed by former United Nations Rights President Navi Pillay, who held the position of judge in the International Criminal Court of Rwanda, which sentenced 62 people to genocide 1994 for more than half a million Rwandi. The three committee members announced in July that they would resign, citing personal reasons and the need for change.

The team was assigned by the Human Rights Council, the best human rights body at the United Nations, but it does not talk about the United Nations.

Israel refused to cooperate with the committee and accuse it and HRC for the anti -Israel bias. Earlier this year, the Trump administration, a major Israeli ally, directed the United States from the Council.

The committee says that Israel committed “genocide actions”

After a strenuous legal analysis, and the examination of both procedures and intention, the committee said that Israel had committed four of the five “genocide laws” specified under an international conference adopted in 1948 known colloquially as the “genocide agreement”, three years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust.

“The committee finds that Israel is responsible for the genocide committee in Gaza,” said Pelay, Chairman of the Committee. “It is clear that there is an intention to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through actions that meet the standards stipulated in the genocide agreement.”

The team relied on its results on the five conference standards to assess whether the genocide has occurred: members of a group were killed; Its members cause serious physical or mental harm; Imposing measures aimed at preventing births in the group; Endowment of intentional conditions to achieve the “physical destruction” of the group; Her children were forcefully transferred to another group.

Under the agreement, the set of genocide can be made even if only one of these five standards is met – the committee said that four were. He said that not only was fulfilled by forced transport standards.

“The responsibility for atrocities is with the Israeli authorities at the highest levels,” Pelay said.

She concluded her committee that Netanyahu, as well as Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog and former Defense Secretary Yaf Gallant, had incited the genocide committee. He did not evaluate whether other Israeli leaders had done it too.

Committee member Chris Sidoti said that he hopes the report will reach people in Israel, and insists that they were “spent” by the government in its “deadly rejection” to take measures to save the Israeli hostages after 1,200 people were killed on October 7 two years ago, and the “genocide war” that led to the security of the sinuses.

“We cannot understand the shock of the seventh of October to the people of Israel,” he told reporters. “The shock has been tampered with and their suffering without mercy by Netanyahu and his crucible over the past two years – it’s time to stop. It is time to be responsible for it.”

Israel rejects the results

Israel strongly rejected the allegations of genocide against it as a “defamation” of anti -Semitic blood, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an angry response on Tuesday that it “categorically rejects this distorted and wrong report.”

She said: “Three individuals working as a notorious enthusiastic agent on their anti -Semitic positions – whose terrible data were convicted of Jews all over the world – today issued” another fake report on Gaza. “

The accusations of genocide are especially sensitive in Israel, which were established as a sanctuary of Jews in the wake of the Holocaust and where the Holocaust memories are important in the country’s national identity.

Upon reaching the conclusion of the genocide, the committee said that it was superior to the behavior of the Israeli security forces and “clear statements” by the Israeli civil and military authorities, among other criteria.

In particular, experts referred to death factors, the “complete siege” of Israel in Gaza, the blockade of humanitarian aid that led to hunger, the policy of “destroying” the health care system systematically, and directly targeting children.

The commission calls on states to act

The committee urged other countries to stop arms transportation to Israel and prevent individuals or companies from measures that could contribute to the genocide in Gaza.

“The international community cannot remain silent on the genocide campaign launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” said Billay, a legal in South Africa. “When clear signs appear on the genocide, the absence of work to prevent it amounts to collusion.”

The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Volcker Turk, criticized Israel’s behavior of the war in Gaza and spoke strongly against alleged crimes, but he did not accuse Israel of implementing genocide.

He argued with his office, which alludes to international law, that it is only an international court that can make an official final decision for the genocide. These critics may take that this may take years and insist that thousands of people, and many civilians are systematically killed in Gaza in the meantime.

The International Court of Justice hears the genocide case submitted by South Africa against Israel. Other countries, including Spain, Mexico and Libya, have asked the United Nations Court to join the case.