UN report accuses Israel of war crimes, crime against humanity in Gaza
A UN commission says Israeli attacks on schools, religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of seeking to exterminate Palestinians.
“Israel has obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip, part of a widespread and relentless assault against the Palestinian people in which Israeli forces have committed war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination,” the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a report.
It paid special attention to Gaza but also focused on Israeli attacks on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel.
‘Enough is enough’: Ex-Israeli leader Olmert urges Trump to pressure Netanyahu
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister between 2006 and 2009, tells AFP in Paris that the US has more influence on the Israeli government “than all the other powers put together” and that President Donald Trump can “make a difference”.
Trump should summon Netanyahu to the White House and, facing cameras, tell the Israeli leader: “‘Bibi: enough is enough'”, Olmert said, using the premier’s nickname.
“This is it. I hope he [Trump] will do it. There is nothing that cannot happen with Trump. I don’t know if this will happen. We have to hope and we have to encourage him,” said Olmert.
The former Israeli PM denounced the continuation of the war in Gaza as a “crime” and insisted a two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict.
He said Netanyahu “failed completely” as a leader by not preventing the unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
