Israel carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s health facilities during the conflict in Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, say in a new report.
In his report published on Thursday, the UN Independent International Investigation Commission for the occupied Palestinian area, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said that the use of serious explosives in civilian areas and Israeli attacks on hospitals and health facilities.
All three led to “disproportionate violence against women and children”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the results of the report and said they were biased and anti -Semitic.
“Instead of concentrating on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes, which were committed by the terrorist organization of Hamas … the United Nations again decides to attack the state of Israel with false accusations,” he said in a statement.
Israel detached himself from the Human Rights Council in February.
“The Israeli authorities have partially destroyed the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, even if there are measures to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statut and the Convention on the Period,” says the UN’s report.
These measures are these measures, the commission, said that these measures, which due to restricted access to medical care due to restricted access to medical deaths concern the crimes against humanity of extermination.
The report accused the security forces of Israel, forced public stripping and sexual assault in the context of their standard procedures to punish the Palestinians according to the attacks on South Israel led by Hamas in October 2023.
According to the Gaza Strip, the resulting war in the Gaza Strip killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.
IDF says guidelines “prohibit such misconduct”
The Commission also accused the Israeli security forces of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. Israel denies all systematic abuse of prisoners and says that they take measures when there are violations.
Israel rejected the allegations.
“The IDF (Israeli defense forces) has concrete guidelines … and guidelines that clearly prohibit such misconduct,” replied the constant mission of the United Nations in Geneva in a statement and added that its review processes correspond to international standards.
An earlier report published by the Commission in June 2024 accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of serious rights in the 2023 attacks, in which 1,200 people killed and, according to Israeli Tallies, led 251 hostages.
In March of last year, a team of United Nations team gave that there were “reasonable reasons to believe”, including rape, in several places during the militant group attack.
The Commission is headed by the former UN human rights head Navi Pillay. His results can be used as proof of the International Criminal Court or other positions that are pursued by war crimes.
Palestinian officials say that the people in Gaza could soon no longer have clean drinking water. After Israel cut off the Gaza power supply this weekend, a desalination system in Deir al-Balah runs with a capacity of around 30 percent for backup generators.
Israel is a party of the genocide convent and was ordered by the International Court in January 2024 to take measures to prevent genocide acts during the war.
It is not a party of the Rome Act that is responsible for the International Criminal Court to decide on individual criminal proceedings that affect genocide and crimes against humanity.
South Africa has submitted a genocide against Israel in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.
