Israel slams UN Commission report finding it guilty of genocide in Gaza

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.

Israel has junked the report, with the foreign ministry calling it ‘fake’, and accusing it of being penned by ‘Hamas proxies’, making it politically motivated, and called for the panel’s immediate dissolution.

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Calling the report a ‘modern-day blood libel’ spread by ‘Nazis’, Speaker of the Knesset (Hebrew for assembly) Amir Ohana speaking to Jerusalem Post mocked the organisation, stating “The UN has become a despicable institution where truth is a lie and a lie is truth.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar rebuking the report said “The report relies entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others.”
“These fabrications have already been thoroughly debunked, including in an independent, in-depth academic study by BESA, which refuted every single false claim regarding genocide,” he added.

“Israel categorically rejects this distorted and false report and calls for the immediate abolition of this Commission of Inquiry.”
The report singled out Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant as perpetrators behind said genocide, accusing them of inciting the public to slaughter Gazans.

Estimates by the Palestinian Health Ministry suggest that nearly 65,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The ministry’s findings do not distinguish between civilians and fighters but has said that most of the casualties are women and children.

Speaking to CNN, President Herzog slammed the report, saying it suffered from a lack of legitimacy “so total that being named in their accusations is itself an endorsement of our fight for human rights.”

International support for Israel has been eroding, hitting an all time low after its missile attack in Qatar on September 9, and was slammed unanimously, including by friendly nations such as India, Egypt, the UK, the UAE, and Germany.
This led to the signing of the ‘New York Declaration’ on September 12 at the UNGA session, which was overwhelmingly for a two-state solution for ending the Israel – Palestine conflict.

While supported by 142 countries, it was opposed only by the US, Hungary, Argentina, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Tonga, while Israel mocked it as being ‘hollow’ and called it ‘theater.’