An independent international investigation committee: Israel committed genocide in Gaza

The Independent International Investigation Committee of the United Nations concerned with the occupied Palestinian land – including East Jerusalem – and Israel was established by the Human Rights Council in 2021.

The committee said, in a press statement, that it had made investigations into the events that took place on October 7, 2023 and since that date over the past two years.

In a report issued today, I concluded that “Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocide actions. I identified “An agreement to prevent the crime of genocide and punish it“For the year 1948, which is” killing, causing serious physical or mental harm, imposing deliberate living conditions intended to destroy the Palestinians completely or partially, and imposing measures aimed at preventing childbirth. “

The committee added that the explicit statements issued by the Israeli civil and military authorities and the patterns of the behavior of the Israeli security forces “indicate that the genocide committed the structure of the total or partial destruction of the Palestinians as a group in the Gaza Strip.”

Nevle, the head of the Independent International Committee, said that “the responsibility of these terrible crimes fall on the Israeli authorities at the highest levels, which have arranged a group of genocide for nearly two years now with a specific intent, which is the destruction of the Palestinians as a group in Gaza.”

She added that the committee also concluded that Israel “failed” to prevent the perpetration of genocide and punish its perpetrators, by “its failure” to investigate the genocide and prosecute the alleged perpetrators.

According to the press statement, in order to prove the intention of genocide, the committee applied the “only reasonable conclusion” criterion that it set International Justice Court In the case of Bosnia against Serbia, statements were analyzed by the Israeli authorities.

The committee concluded that this is a direct evidence of “the intention of genocide.” It also analyzed the pattern of the behavior of the Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces in Gaza, including “starving the Palestinians and imposing inhumane living conditions on them in Gaza, and found that the intention of genocide is the only reasonable conclusion that can be deduced from the nature of their operations.”

Recommendations

• The committee urged the government of Israel to immediately comply with its international legal obligations, including “ending the genocide in the Gaza Strip” and fully implementing the orders of temporary measures issued by the International Court of Justice.

• It stressed the need for Israel to end the policy of starvation, to lift the siege, to facilitate and ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid on a large scale and without obstacles, in addition to the arrival of all United Nations employees without obstacles, including UNRWA employees and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and all recognized international humanitarian agencies that provide and coordinate aid.

• The Committee called on Israel to immediately end the activities of the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”.

• The Committee recommended the member states to stop the transfer of weapons and other equipment that may be used to commit the genocide to Israel; And to ensure that individuals and companies are not involved in their lands and within their judicial states in helping to commit genocide or incite them to commit them, and to take accountability measures through investigations and legal procedures against individuals or companies involved in the genocide directly or indirectly.

The chair of the committee, Navi Pellet, said “The international community cannot remain silent about the group of genocide that Israel is waging against the Palestinian people in Gaza. When clear signs and evidence appears on the genocide, the lack of any action to stop it is complicit.”

She added that every day of inaction is vigor and undermines the credibility of the international community. She emphasized that all countries are “legally obligated to use all the means available to them to stop the genocide in Gaza.”

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*It was created The independent international investigation committee of the United Nations concerned with the occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem, and Israel before United Nations Human Rights Council On May 27, 2021 “to investigate the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and within Israel in all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all the alleged violations and transgressions of international human rights law that preceded April 13, 2021 and has occurred since this date.”

And the decision was requested A/HRC/RES/S-30/1 Also from the Investigation Committee “the investigation of all the radical reasons behind the repeated tensions, instability and the prolongation of the conflict, including discrimination and systematic repression based on national, ethnic, ethnic or religious identity.”