Israel rejects UN report that accused it of doing ‘genocide against Palestinians’, calls authors Hamas…

Israel-Gaza conflict: In a significant development in the Israel-Gaza conflict, Israel has rejected the new UN report that accused Israel of committing ‘genocide against Palestinians.’ Calling it ‘distorted and false’, Israel dismissed the authors of the report as ‘Hamas proxies.’ For those unversed, UN’s independent International Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory released a 72-page report claiming that Israel is committing genocidal acts in Gaza. Here are all the details you need to know about the recent war of words between UN and Israel.

What has Israeli Foreign Ministry said on UN allegations?

In the recent development, the Foreign Ministry has stressed that Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties by warning them. The ministry also accused Hamas of endangering non-combatants. Not stopping here, the ministry claimed that Hamas itself attempted genocide in Israel, killing 1,200 people, raping women.

The ministry has also accused the UN’s commission of promoting an anti-Semitic narrative noting the fact that the three members announced their resignations in July.

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What United Nations said on Israel?

Earlier, a United Nations Commission of Inquiry had concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts in Gaza.

“Today we witness in real time how the promise of ‘never again’ is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency,” Navi Pillay, head of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and a former International Criminal Court judge, was quoted as saying at a press briefing in Geneva by a Reuters report.

Story highlights:

1. Israel Foreign Ministry has stressed that Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties.
2. Israel has rejected the UN report that accused Israel of committing ‘genocide against Palestinians.’
3. UN had earlier accused Israel of ‘genocide against Palestinians.’

Asked if he would consider using the word genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza, High Commissioner Volker Turk said: “We see the piling up of war crime after war crime or crime against humanity, and potentially even more. I mean, it’s for the court to decide whether it’s genocide or not and we see the evidence mounting.”