Gaza: a UN commission accuses Israel of genocide

An independent commission of inquiry mandated by the UN Human Rights Council affirms, in a report made public on Tuesday, that Israel commits a genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Chaired by the former High Commissioner Navi Pillay, the Commission considers that Israel has perpetrated four of the five acts defined by the 1948 Convention: massive murders, serious physical and psychological damage, living conditions imposed to destroy the population and measures aimed at preventing births.

The report denounces the total seat, famine, systematic destruction of medical and educational infrastructure, as well as sexual violence, concluding that “genocidal intention is the only reasonable conclusion”. The Commission calls on the international community to “act to end the genocide” and to continue those responsible. Israel categorically rejects these accusations.

This publication occurs while the Israeli army intensifies its genocide in Gaza, where nearly a million civilians are still trapped under the bombing and faced with an extreme shortage of water, food and drugs, according to the UN.

In the light of these findings, many lawyers and specialists in international law believe that the qualification of genocide is now no longer in doubt. The consistency of the facts noted – large -scale murders, organized famine, deliberate destruction of vital infrastructure – corresponds to point by point to the definition established by the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the Crime of Genocide.