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An independent UN inquiry on Tuesday accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, the same day that Tel Aviv launched the first phase of a ground assault on Gaza City, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of stranded Gazans. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued the most damning report of Israel’s post-Oct. 7 onslaught yet, concluding that the Israeli government and forces had committed “four of the five genocidal acts” defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The report accused senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and President Isaac Herzog, of inciting genocide. The commission of inquiry found that “genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur.” Two years after Israel waged war on the Strip, the 72-page report pointed to the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic in the territory to support the genocide finding.
As expected, Israel immediately rejected the report, with the Foreign Ministry describing it as “fake.” “Israel categorically rejects this distorted and false report and calls for the immediate abolition of this Commission of Inquiry,” it added in a post on X.
