{"id":19315,"date":"2025-09-16T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:04:10","slug":"un-panel-finds-netanyahu-top-israeli-officials-incited-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19315","title":{"rendered":"UN panel finds Netanyahu, top Israeli officials incited Gaza genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts.<\/p>\n

In its most damning assessment to date, the commission said the scale of killings, obstruction of humanitarian aid, forced displacement, and the destruction of infrastructure \u2014 including a fertility clinic \u2014 amounted to genocidal actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenocide is occurring in Gaza,\u201d said Navi Pillay, head of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and a former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge. \u201cThe responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israel has declined to cooperate with the commission and has rejected its findings. Its diplomatic mission in Geneva accused the body of harboring a political agenda against Israel.<\/p>\n

Strongest UN Finding Yet<\/p>\n

The commission\u2019s 72-page legal analysis represents the strongest UN-related conclusion so far on the war in Gaza. While the commission is independent and does not officially speak for the United Nations, its findings add pressure on the UN to formally recognize the situation as genocide.<\/p>\n

Israel is currently facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. It strongly denies all accusations, citing its right to self-defense following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and resulted in 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures.<\/p>\n

The ensuing war in Gaza has killed more than 64,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. A global hunger monitoring organization has reported famine conditions in parts of the territory.<\/p>\n

Genocide Convention Criteria<\/p>\n

Under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, genocide is defined as acts committed \u201cwith intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.\u201d At least one of five specific acts must be present.<\/p>\n

The commission concluded that Israel committed four of the five:<\/p>\n

Killing members of the group<\/p>\n

Causing serious bodily or mental harm<\/p>\n

Deliberately inflicting life conditions aimed at destruction<\/p>\n

Imposing measures intended to prevent births<\/p>\n

These findings were based on interviews with victims, witnesses, doctors, verified open-source documents, and satellite imagery.<\/p>\n

\u201cDirect Evidence of Genocidal Intent\u201d<\/p>\n

The report highlights statements by Netanyahu and other top officials as \u201cdirect evidence of genocidal intent.\u201d It cites a letter Netanyahu wrote to Israeli soldiers in November 2023 comparing the Gaza operation to a \u201choly war of total annihilation\u201d referenced in the Hebrew Bible.<\/p>\n

Other officials named include Israeli President Isaac Herzog and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.<\/p>\n

Pillay, who previously headed the UN tribunal for Rwanda, said the Gaza situation bears resemblance to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I look at the facts in the Rwandan genocide, it’s very, very similar to this,\u201d she said. \u201cYou dehumanise your victims \u2014 they’re animals \u2014 and so therefore, without conscience, you can kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the ICJ has cited Israeli statements in its emergency measures order earlier in 2024, it has not named Netanyahu directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened,\u201d said Pillay, who is expected to retire in November.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts. In its most damning assessment to date, the commission said the scale of killings, obstruction of humanitarian aid, forced displacement, and the destruction of infrastructure \u2014 including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}