An elderly Palestinian reacts to the area destroyed after Israelite air strikes in Gaza
This is the first time the United Nations have come to the conclusion that the Israeli government has “orchestrated and incited a genocidal campaign” with the “intention to destroy” the Palestinians. European Union says it is “helping the more it can.”
An independent UN investigation committee accused Israel Tuesday of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip Since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, with the “intention to destroy” the Palestinians.
“We have come to the conclusion that a genocide happens in Gaza and will continue to happen, and Responsibility is up to the State of Israel“The chairman of this committee, Navi Pillary, said when presenting the UN Commission’s investigation report on crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The highest Israeli leaders “orchestrated a genocide campaign”added 83 -year -old Navi Pillary, the former United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.
The commission “concluded that Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, They incited genocide and that the Israelite authorities have not taken any measure against these people to punish this incitement. ”
Investigations, whose starting point is the attacks of the Palestinian Islamite group Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, demonstrated that authorities and Israelite security forces committed “four of the five genocidal acts” defined by the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Crime of 1948.
These crimes are, namely, “killing members of a group; cause serious physical or mental damage to members of a group; deliberately impose on the group conditions calculated to cause their physical, total or partial destruction; and measures intended to prevent births within a group.”
Israel “categorically rejects” this “biased and liar report and calls for the committee’s immediate dissolution”, the Ministry of Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
EU: “We have no tools to stop this”
“The international community cannot remain silent before the genocidal campaign launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza. When clear signs and evidence of genocide arise, the omission in acting to prevent it equals complicity“According to the commission, which is not a legal body, but whose reports may increase diplomatic pressure and serve to gather evidence to be used by the courts. The commission has a cooperation agreement with the International Criminal Court (ICC), with which“ thousands of information ”is shared, according to the chairman of the UN commission.
The high representative of the European Union (EU) diplomacy admitted on Tuesday that the community bloc “There are no tools” To stop Telavive.
“I want to insist that this terrestrial offensive, and I was quite clear with the Israeli government, goes in the wrong direction, will only bring more devastation, more destruction, more innocent civilian deaths, but we have no tools to really stop it,” Kaja Kallas said in an interview with Lusa agency.
The EU high representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has lamented that the European political-economic bloc lack the means to wage Israel’s terrestrial offensive and has insisted that the European Union is “helping Palestinians as much as it can.”
The European Commission will propose Wednesday the partial suspension of the association agreement between European Union and Israel in commercial issues, something that, according to Kallas, “would have a very heavy financial cost ”for Telavivethe termination of the commercial provisions of the agreement, namely the revocation of the most favored nation principle for some products.
The Military Retail campaign in the Palestinian territory made almost 65 thousand deadaccording to data from the Ministry of Health of Gaza controlled by Hamas, which the UN considers reliable. However, the UN rapporteur for the Palestinian territories occupied this Monday that “We must start thinking of 680 thousand ”dead“Because this is the number that some academics and researchers point to how the true figure of dead in Gaza.”
At least 41 residents of Gaza died between Monday night and this Tuesday due to Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip, In one of the deadliest nights Since Israel launched its terrestrial operation in the city of Gaza. The Israelite Army launched a new offensive on a large scale To try to capture the city of Gaza, located in the north of the Gaza Strip, after weeks of intense bombing and withdrawal orders to expel the population from the area. Previously, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that in the face of the Israeli army attacks.
