{"id":303296,"date":"2025-09-22T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303296"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:11:19","slug":"gaza-top-un-independent-rights-probe-alleges-israel-committed-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/gaza-top-un-independent-rights-probe-alleges-israel-committed-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Top UN Independent Rights Probe Alleges Israel Committed Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Screening for malnutrition by a worker from the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA,in Gaza City, Sep 2025.\u00a0 \u00a9 UNRWA<\/p><\/div>\n

16 Sep 2025 –<\/span> Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the UN Human Rights Council alleged today that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel<\/a>, urged Israel and all countries to fulfil their obligations under international law \u201cto end the genocide\u201d and punish those responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,\u201d insisted Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission<\/a>. \u201cIt is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Danny Meron, dismissed the Commission’s “cherry-picked” findings outright, maintaining that the 70-plus page report “promotes a narrative serving Hamas and its supporters in attempting to delegitimize and demonize the state of Israel. The report falsely accuses Israel of genocidal intent, an allegation it cannot substantiate.”<\/p>\n

At a press conference in Geneva, the Commission of Inquiry’s members Ms. Pillay and Chris Sidoti – who are not UN staff but instead appointed by the Human Rights Council<\/a>\u2019s 47 Member States – explained that their investigations into the war in Gaza beginning with Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023 had led to the conclusion that Israeli authorities and security forces \u201ccommitted four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

These acts are:<\/p>\n