Israeli attacks on reproductive health care in Gaza ‘Genocidal’: UN Experts | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
UN experts say Israel ‘intentionally attacked and destroyed’ the main center of fertility of Palestinian territory.
Israel performed “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying health care institutions during it War on Gaza And using sexual violence as a war strategy, said experts of the United Nations.
On Thursday, an independent International Investigation Commission, based in Geneva, said in a new report that Israel “intentionally attacked and destroyed” the main Gaza fertility center, blocking medicine for pregnancy, delivery and neonatal care from entry into the enclave.
In her report, the Commission found that the Israeli authorities “destroyed … The reproductive ability of Palestinians in Gaza as groups by systematically destroying sexual and reproductive health care,” the statement said.
He added that this meant “two categories of genocidal works” during the Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched after Hamas on Israel on Israel on 7. October 2023.
For his part, “Israel is categorically rejecting unfounded allegations,” the Geneva Mission said in a statement.
Israel also accused the Commission, which was founded in May 2021 of promoting “a predetermined and biased political agent … in order to incriminate Israeli defense forces.”
‘War crime
The report states that there were maternity hospitals and departments Systematically destroyed In Gaza, together with the Al-Basma Center IVF, the main territory fertility clinic.
Al-Basma said it was deliberately grenade in December 2023, destroying about 4,000 embryos on a clinic that served with 2,000-3,000 patients per month.
The Commission did not determine credible evidence that the building was used for military purposes.
It was said that the destruction of “the measure is intended to prevent birth among the Palestinians in Gaza, which is a genocidal act.”
In an interview with Al Jazeera, a former UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths said: “It is good that the UN is now talking about genocide, because it has been very careful in that word so far.”
And while he said that the evidence for genocide was “undeniable” and that the findings were “too late”, he decided to say that either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court would bring responsible justice.
“Will that be legally implemented? I don’t think so,” he said about the discoveries of the report.
The report was followed by a public debate in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday, listening to victims and witnesses of sexual violence.
It is concluded that Israel was directly targeting civilian women and girls, “acts that represent a crime against humanity of murder and a war crime of willing murder.”
The Commission added that forcibly public removal and nudity, sexual harassment, including rape threats, as well as sexual abuse, make part of the “standard operational procedures” of the Israeli forces towards Palestinians.
