Israel has performed “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying health care institutions during a gaza conflict and used sexual violence as a war strategy, say the United Nations experts in a new report.
In its report published on Thursday, the UN Independent International Investigation Commission on the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said the use of heavy explosives in civilian areas and Israeli attacks on hospitals and health institutions.
They said that all three led to “disproportionate violence against women and children.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the reports of the reports, saying that they were biased and anti -Semitic.
“Instead of focusing on crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Hamas terrorist organization … The United Nations once again decide to attack the state of Israel with false accusations,” he said in a statement.
In February, Israel separated from the Human Rights Council.
“The Israeli authorities have partly destroyed the reproductive ability of Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including the imposition of measures intended to prevent birth, one of the categories of genocidal works in the Roman Statute and the Convention on Genocide,” the UN Commission reported.
These actions, in addition to the increase in motherhood death, were a crime against humanity of extermination due to a limited approach to medical equipment, the Commission said.
The report accused Israel’s safety forces of using forcibly public removal and sexual abuse as part of their standard operational procedures to punish Palestine after the Hamas attack on southern Israel in October 2023.
The resulting war in Gaza’s belt killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.
Idf says policies “forbid such an inconsistent behavior”
The Commission also accused Israeli security forces of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian detainees. Israel denies any systematic abuse of prisoners and says that measures are needed when there are violations.
Israel rejected the accusations.
“IDF [Israeli Defence Force] He has specific directives … and policies that unequivocally forbid such misconduct, “the UN’s permanent mission answered in the statement, adding that his examination processes are in accordance with international standards.
The previous report published by the Commission in June 2024 was accused by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of serious rights in the 2023 attacks, which killed 1,200 people and resulted in 251 hostages, according to Israeli Tallies.
In March last year, a team of experts of the United Nations said that several locations appeared “reasonable basics for believing” sexual violence, including rape, occurred in several locations during the attack group attacks.
Former UN chief is led by the Commission for Human Rights Parli Pillay. Its discoveries can be used as evidence for the International Criminal Court or other bodies that seek to prosecute war crimes.
Palestinian officials say that people in Gaza could soon run out clean drinking water. After Israel interrupted the electricity supply in Gaza this weekend, the Deir Al-Balah plant has performed about 30 percent of the capacity on spare generators.
Israel is a party of the Convention on Genocide, and the International Court of Justice ordered it in January 2024 to take measures to prevent genocide during the war against Hamas.
It is not a party of Roman statute, which gives the international criminal court to decide on individual criminal cases involving genocide and crimes against humanity.
South Africa carried out the case of genocide against Israeli proceedings in Gaza to the International Court of Justice.
