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How UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel is committing genocide
The commission has applied the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to Israel’s actions in Gaza. It found that the Israeli military – at the orders of the Israeli government – is carrying out four of the five methods of genocide cited by the convention.
The report said Israel is: Killing members of the group [Palestinians]; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
It also showed – through the public statements of Israeli officials – that Israel has dolus specialis of genocide – “specific intent” to destroy Palestinians as a people.
“The victims of the bombing were not singled out or targeted as individual civilians. On the contrary, victims were targeted collectively due to their identity as Palestinians,” the report read.
“The Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children.”
UN report highlights responsibility of other states in Gaza genocide
The UN Commission of Inquiry, which concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, underscores in its report that countries across the world have a responsibility to stop the Israeli atrocities.
The report said the International Court of Justice’s ruling in January 2024 that found it plausible that Israel was committing genocidal acts in Gaza put “all states on notice”.
“As such, the duty to prevent genocide was triggered due to the actual or constructive knowledge of the immediate plausibility that genocide was being or was about to be committed,” it said.
“According to the International Court of Justice, where States Parties are able to contribute to the prevention of genocide, they are obligated to ’employ all means reasonably available to them, so as to prevent genocide so far as possible.’ Responsibility may be incurred if a State Party ‘manifestly failed to take all measures to prevent genocide which were within its power, and which might have contributed to preventing the genocide.'”
Several Western countries, including the US and Germany, continued to provide Israel with weapons and diplomatic support after the ICJ ruling.
