A new United Nations report says that Israel used sexual and gender -specific violence as a war strategy in Gaza and carried out “genocidal actions” against the Palestinians through the systematic destruction of health facilities for women.
In a report published on Thursday, the UN Independent International Investigation Commission for the occupied Palestinian territory, including Eastern Jerusalem, and Israel, the widespread destruction of the territory, the use of serious explosives in civilian areas and Israeli attacks on hospitals and health facilities.
The 49-page report found that all three factors led to “disproportionate violence against women and children”.
“The evidence collected by the Commission show an unfortunate increase in sexual and gender violence,” said the chairman of the Commission and the former human rights head of the UN, Navi Pillay.
“There is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has used sexual and gender violence against Palestinians to terrorize them and maintain a system of oppression that undermines their right to self -determination.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the results of the report were biased and anti -Semitic.
“Instead of concentrating on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes that were committed by the terrorist organization of Hamas … the United Nations again decides to attack the state of Israel with false accusations,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
Reproductive capacity of the Palestinians destroyed: report
The Israeli authorities have “partially destroyed the reproductive ability of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group,” the report said.
In a statement published together with the report on Thursday, Pillay said the goal of reproductive facilities in the healthcare system, including direct attacks at maternity stations and the main clinic of the in-vitro fruit reliability of Gaza combined with the use of hunger as a war method of war method, including duplication, including pregnancy, children’s.
“These violations have not only caused severe immediate physical and intellectual damage and suffering, but also irreversible long-term effects on mental health and the reproductive and fertility outlets of the Palestinians as a group,” said Pillay.
An orphaned little girl in Gaza, who was pulled out of the womb after an Israeli air raid, is brought to life.
The destruction of the reproductive capacity is two categories of genocidal actions in the Rome Statute and in the Convention on the Break: Certainly the living conditions that are calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Palestinians; and imposing measures to prevent births.
These measures are these measures, the commission, said that these measures, which due to restricted access to medical care due to restricted access to medical deaths concern the crimes against humanity of extermination.
The report also accused the security forces of Israel, forced public stripping and sexual assault in the context of their standard procedures to punish the Palestinians according to the attacks on South Israel led by Hamas in October 2023.
According to the Gaza Strip, the resulting war in the Gaza Strip killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.
While a series of hearings by the Commission in Geneva this week, a nurse said in Gaza Strip, which was only identified for his protection, said that the Israeli forces kidnapped him and made it publicly undressed. During his captivity, he was beaten in the genitals, he said.
“This is physical abuse, but it is also psychological abuse. It should humble,” said Chris Sidoti, one of three members of an investigation commission in abuses that were committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian areas.
IDF says guidelines “prohibit such misconduct”
The Commission also accused the Israeli security forces of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. Israel denies all systematic abuse of prisoners and says that they take measures when there are violations.
Israel, which was dismissed by the Human Rights Council in February, rejected the allegations.
“The IDF (Israeli defense forces) has concrete guidelines … and guidelines that clearly prohibit such misconduct,” replied the constant mission of the United Nations in Geneva in a statement and added that its review processes correspond to international standards.
Palestinian officials say that the people in Gaza could soon no longer have clean drinking water. After Israel cut off the Gaza power supply this weekend, a desalination system in Deir al-Balah runs with a capacity of around 30 percent for backup generators.
An earlier report published by the Commission in June 2024 accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of serious rights in the 2023 attacks, in which 1,200 people killed and, according to Israeli Tallies, led 251 hostages.
In March of last year, a team of United Nations team gave that there were “reasonable reasons to believe”, including rape, in several places during the militant group attack.
The results of the Commission can be used as proof of them International Criminal Court (ICC) or other bodies that want to pursue war crimes.
Pillay referred to statements that had to be negotiated in the commission’s hearings and accused Israel of “pursuing a lack of effectiveness of the military judiciary and condemning perpetrators”. She said that this will send a “clear message to the members of the Israeli security forces that they can continue to commit such actions without being afraid of the accountability”.
“In this context, the obligation to account by the International Criminal Court and the national courts by its domestic law or the exercise of universal responsibility is of essential importance if the rule of law is to be confirmed and the victims of the judiciary is to be awarded,” said Pillay on Thursday.
South Africa who has brought with it a genocide case Against the actions of Israel in the Gaza at the International Court of Justice, the Israeli military operation in Gaza “genocidal in character” intended and intended to bring about the destruction of the Palestinian people in the besieged area.
Israel is a party of the genocide convent and was ordered by the International Court in January 2024 to take measures to prevent genocide acts during the war.
It is not a party of the Rome Act that is responsible for the International Criminal Court to decide on individual criminal proceedings that affect genocide and crimes against humanity.
