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Geneva – 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 take steps to punish those responsible for this.
The deep -documented results by the three -member team are the latest accusations of genocide against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by rights advocates, as an Israeli continues with its war against Hamas in Gaza, which killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what was called “Distinguished and Liar” report.
The investigation committee on the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, which was established four years ago, has documented violations and violations in alleged human rights in Gaza since October 7, 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 worked as a Rwanda International Criminal Court. Its three 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 “material 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.
“Responsibility for atrocities is with the Israeli authorities at the highest levels” over the past two years, “Pelay, the former United Nations human rights commander.
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 did so as well.
Chris Sidoti, one of the three members of the Committee, said that he hopes the report will reach people in Israel, and insists that they were “spent” by the government in its “distinctive rejection” to take action to save the Israeli hostages after 1,200 people were killed on October 7 two years ago, and the “Ganokidal” that she saved.
“We cannot understand the shock on 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 refutes the results
Israel, which was established in the aftermath of the Holocaust, rejected the allegations of genocide against it as a “anti -hemorrhagic” “defamation”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel issued an angry response on Tuesday, saying it “categorically rejects this distorted and false report.”
“Three individuals who work as a notorious enthusiastic agent for their anti -Semitic positions – whose horrific statements were convicted of the Jews around the world – today issued” another fake report on Gaza. “
The accusations of genocide are particularly sensitive in Israel, which was established as a sanctuary of Jews in the wake of the Holocaust and where the Holocaust memories are still an important role in the country’s national identity.
Upon reaching the conclusion of the genocide, the committee said that it was outperforming the behavior of the Israeli security forces and “frank data” by the Israeli civil and military authorities, among other criteria.
In particular, experts referred to death factors, the “total blockade” of Israel in Gaza and the siege of humanitarian aid that led to hunger, the policy of “systematically destroying” the health care system, 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 Pelay, a legal in South Africa. “When clear signs appear on the genocide, the lack of work to stop 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 official decision for genocide. Critics, which 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.