UN investigators call on UN member states to halt arms transfers to Israel
The UN investigators, who have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, have made four key recommendations for UN member states:
- To immediately end the genocide in Gaza and implement a ceasefire
- Ensure unhindered access of UN staff to Gaza
- End policies which are causing starvation in Gaza, including disbanding the GHF system
- Ensure full access to humanitarian aid
The investigators have also called on all UN member states to use all means “reasonably available to them” to prevent the genocide taking place in Gaza, and to cease the transfer of arms and equipment used for the war, including jet fuel.
It also called for ensuring that individuals and companies in their jurisdiction are not participating or supporting the genocide, and imposing sanctions on Israel and individuals or corporations which are facilitating the genocide.
UN investigators say Israel responsible for failure to prevent and punish genocide
Navi Pillay, head of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, is delivering a news conference on the report that has just been launched.
The report concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Here are some key points from the news conference:
- Israeli authorities committed and are continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- The pattern of conduct is circumstantial evidence against the Israeli leadership of genocidal intent, and that genocidal intent was the “only reasonable inference that could be drawn from a totality of the evidence”.
- Israel is responsible for failure to prevent genocide, commission of genocide and failure to punish genocide.
