UN Investigators Say Zionist Entity Committing Genocide in Gaza
United Nations investigators on Tuesday accused the Zionist entity of committing genocide in Gaza in a bid to “destroy the Palestinians”, accusing top Zionist officials of incitement.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI), which does not speak on behalf of the world body, found that “genocide is occurring in Gaza”, commission chief Navi Pillay told AFP.
“The responsibility lies with the State of Israel.”
After the report was published, UN rights chief Volker Turk said it was up to the courts to determine whether genocide was taking place, but warned: “We see the evidence mounting.”
The report came as the Zionist entity on Tuesday launched a ground assault on Gaza City, where the UN has declared a full-blown famine.
The COI concluded that Zionist authorities and forces had since October 2023 committed “four of the five genocidal acts” listed in the 1948 Genocide Convention.
These are “killing members of the group, 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”.
The investigators said explicit statements by Zionist civilian and military authorities and their patterns of military action “indicated that the genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy… Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group”.
“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Zionist authorities at the highest echelons,” stated Pillay, 83, a South African former judge who once headed the international tribunal for Rwanda and also served as UN human rights chief.
The commission is not a legal body but its reports wield diplomatic pressure and serve to gather evidence for later use by courts.
Pillay said the commission was cooperating with the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, and had “shared thousands of pieces of information with them”.
The investigators stressed that it could take years for the court to definitively rule on whether a genocide is taking place — but Pillay insisted member states must “act now”.
“The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity.”
