UN Investigation Confirms Israel Committed Genocidal Acts in GazaGeneva, 13 Mar (ONA) — A UN investigation into the Gaza Strip has
confirmed that the Israeli occupation army committed acts of
“genocide” through the systematic destruction of sexual and
reproductive healthcare facilities.
The UN Commission of Inquiry, in accordance with the UN Genocide
Convention, found that Israeli occupation authorities have destroyed in part the
reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the
systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare,
amounting to two categories of genocidal acts.

The investigation found the occupation involved in two of the five
acts defined by the UN Convention as genocide, noting that the
Israeli entity was deliberately inflicting conditions of life on the
group (the Palestinians) calculated to bring about its physical
destruction and imposing measures aimed at preventing births within
the group.

In a statement, Chair of the Commission Navi Pillay said: “These
violations have not only caused severe immediate physical and mental
harm and suffering to women and girls, but irreversible long-term
effects on the mental health and reproductive and fertility prospects
of Palestinians as a group.”
The United Nations’ genocide convention defines that crime as acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group.

The three-person Independent International Commission of Inquiry was
established by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to investigate
alleged international law violations in Israel and the Palestinian
territories.— Ends/Khalid