US EditionIsrael Slams UN Commission Report Finding It Guilty of Genocide in Gaza - The Statesman
The UN commission documented killing, severe harm, and birth prevention as genocidal acts against Palestinians amid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with over 64,900 deaths reported.
- On September 16, 2025, a UN commission led by Navi Pillay found Israel responsible for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- This finding follows a two-year investigation since October 7, 2023, into Israeli acts meeting four of five genocidal criteria under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
- The report details killings, serious bodily harm, deliberate life-threatening conditions, and birth prevention inflicted on Palestinians both in Gaza and Israeli jails.
- Israel strongly rejected the report as false and politically motivated, accusing the commission of relying on Hamas proxies, while global actors remain divided.
- The findings intensified international calls, including from South Africa and the UN, for urgent action to enforce compliance with international law and halt ongoing violations.
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Israel slams UN Commission report finding it guilty of genocide in Gaza - The Statesman
The UN Commission publishing its report on Israel and its actions in Gaza, accused the country of partaking in genocide, as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, leading to furious backlash from Jerusalem which proceeded to mock the report.
The report of a commission appointed by the UN accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of inciting genocide in Gaza. What is Israel’s response and what impact can the definition of genocide have?
GENEVA- The UN International Independent Commission on the Occupied Palestinian Territories has become the first instance to establish in a factual way that a genocide is being committed in Gaza and the work it is doing is comparable to that of other investigative mechanisms in its time in the face of the genocides in Bosnia (ex-Yugoslavia), Rwanda and Darfur (Sudan).What is a GENOCIDE?According to the 1948 Genocide Convention and the Rome Statu…
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