The UN rapporteur’s report concludes that there is evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

A report from the UN Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanesewhich on Tuesday, the 26th, will be presented to the Human Rights Council of UNconcludes that there is “reasonable grounds”to conclude that Israel is committing a deliberate genocide in the Palestinian strip Link.

The 25-page document published this Monday concludes, after analyzing patterns of violence and policies of Israel in your attack Linkthat Israel intentionally commits at least three “genocidal acts” defined as such by Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide from 1948.

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These would be the “murder of members of a group“, with more than 30 thousand Palestinians killed in five months of conflict”,serious physical or mental harm to members of a group“, It is “deliberately causing conditions in a group calculated to lead to its partial or complete physical destruction”.

The serious physical and mental damage would be proven, among other evidence, by the more than 70 thousand Palestinians injured in the conflict, or by deliberately causing a shortage of medical material which, in the most dramatic cases, forced amputations to be carried out without anesthesia.

The generation of living conditions for the “physical destructionThe destruction of the Palestinians, argues the Albanian report, would be proven with the destruction of 77% of the strip’s health facilities, 68% of telecommunications infrastructure or 60% of homes and educational institutions, including all universities.

“Genocidal” logic and colonial project

“More generally, Israel’s actions are driven by a genocidal logic essential to its colonial project in Palestine.“, highlights the report of the Italian expert, who also recalls the existence of”practices aimed at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”in the period 1947-1949 and in 1967.

The deliberate nature of Israeli actions that could constitute genocide in the five months of conflict is proven, according to the report, by events such as the rhetoric of senior Israeli officials, often repeated by religious leaders, journalists, artists, political commentators and other stakeholders.

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In this sense, the report cites statements such as that of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahureferring to Palestinians as “monsters“, by the president Isaac Herzog blaming the entire Palestinian nation for the terrorist attacks of October 7thor the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galantedescribing the city as Palestine as “human animals”.

“Calls for the annihilation of violence are addressed to troops on duty, providing clear evidence of direct and public incitement to commit genocide.”, highlights the report.

The document, titled “Anatomy of a genocide”, also condemns the use of “humanitarian camouflage” by Israel to commit these abuses with alleged justifications in international humanitarian law to provide a basis for its offensive in Gaza.

Albanese gives as examples the Israeli argument that Hamas uses the entire population of Gaza as a human shield, its strategy of connecting all types of installations to this armed group (including hospitals, mosques, schools and UN buildings) or considering all the track as a whole “military objective”.

The report includes data such as that, in five months of military campaign, Israel used 25 thousand tons of explosives against Gaza, the equivalent of two nuclear bombs.

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Embargo, investigation and reconstruction

Taking into account its conclusions, the United Nations rapporteur’s report will ask the Human Rights Council an immediate arms embargo on Israel and move towards an independent investigation into human rights violations in Gaza.

It will also call for measures to ensure repair of the strip, including full payment by Israel and “complicit states”of the reconstruction of Gaza, and the implementation of“international protective presence” in that Palestinian territory to prevent violence against the population from continuing.

The report will be published exactly two months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN court in Have itasked Israel, in a preliminary decision, to take all necessary measures to prevent a genocide in Gaza, although it has not yet determined whether or not such a genocide exists in the strip, as such a conclusion could take years to process.

Source: Elcomercio

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