A Palestinian girl carrying portions of food walks past a bombed building in Gaza.
Julian Borger – The Guardian Nov 14, 2024
A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.
The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The international court of justice (ICJ) is investigating a claim put forward by South Africa that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is genocidal, and has ordered Israel to take interim measures to prevent genocide taking place.
The new report is by the special committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories. The committee, set up in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, is made up of representatives from three member states: Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Senegal.
There was no immediate response from the Israeli government, which has portrayed the UN in general as obsessed with, and biased against, the country. The Israeli mission informed the body earlier this month that the government would stop cooperating with Unrwa, the main relief agency providing welfare services to Palestinians, within the coming three months.
The UN special committee said that its requests to visit Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and Israel had received no response, so its staff were not able to visit the areas it was scrutinising. It said its research raised “serious concerns of breaches of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including starvation as a weapon of war, the possibility of genocide in Gaza and an apartheid system in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem”.
The developments over the past year had led the committee to conclude that “the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide”, the report said.
“Civilians have been indiscriminately and disproportionally killed en masse in Gaza,” the report added. It also referred to the “life-threatening conditions imposed on Palestinians in Gaza through warfare and restrictions on humanitarian aid – resulting in physical destruction, increased miscarriages and stillbirths”.
The committee further accused Israel of deliberately using “food as a weapon of warfare”.
“Since the escalation of the conflict, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies depriving civilians of food, water, and fuel, indicating their intent to instrumentalise the provision of basic necessities for political and military objectives,” the report said.
In January the ICJ responded to the genocide case brought by South Africa by ordering South Africa to take interim steps pending the court’s ruling, telling the Israeli government to refrain from acts violating the Genocide Convention, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, to ensure humanitarian aid reached Gaza citizens and to preserve evidence of genocide.
Israel rejected the court’s ruling, and the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that his country’s commitment to international law was “unwavering”.
its not likened to genocide
it is genocide
More than 30 Church officials face the sack after Archbishop of Canterbury quits
Story by Alexander Butler
More than thirty members of the Church of England could be sacked over their failure to stop a barrister thought to have been the most prolific boy rapist associated with the institution.
The officials are being examined by the Church’s safeguarding team after they were named in a damning report as having knowledge of John Smyth KC’s “abhorrent abuse” of children and teenage boys
t comes after the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned following increased pressure to stand down over his “failures” to alert authorities to Smyth’s behaviour.
Smyth was said to have subjected as many as 130 boys and young men in the UK and Africa to traumatic physical, sexual and psychological abuse across five decades.
Despite knowledge of Smyth’s abuse at the highest levels of the Church, Hampshire Police only opened an investigation in 2017 after Smyth was the subject of a Channel 4 News report.
He died aged 77 in Cape Town in 2018 and so was never brought to justice for the abuse, according to the Makin report.
Dozens of church leaders, including several bishops, could now be removed for their roles after an internal review of the case, according to the Daily Telegraph.
FOOTNOTE Homosexual and lesbian relationships are the most prone to physical violence
many homosexuals are so appalled after the rape they cant help but attack them
UN–you mean Black atheist Commies who would take “abortion” up to three-year-olds?
Looks like what the UN says matters only when it’s supporting Jewish causes, like the WEF bankrupting all but the elite and the WHO genociding same..
Whites better start focusing on their own impending genocide within their own nations, instead of on these mongrels & wogs all the time.
WLO
The basic universal message of the Jews & wogs: ‘Pity & weep for us white man (e.g., Jews = holocaust/blacks = slavery/wogs = colonialism) as we expand & take over your countries, societies, women & world.’
But all is not hopeless on this planet of 7-8 billion ballooning wogs. All that is required is for enough white men/women to profess ‘The Book of the Law’ as the new Aryan religion & things will quickly start changing/improving for the race.
A.A.
@YVETTE
YES some dont like it but
WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS NOW by talmud Sanhedrin !
https://youtu.be/mGhLOAqZL4A?si=yVRq49Debqb7LGbvhttps://youtu.be/mGhLOAqZL4A?si=yVRq49Debqb7LGbv. Walk through gaza 14-11-2024.no genocide,no war
Took UN over a year to determine genocide. By the time all the Palestinians are dead, UN will take it to the next level – a proclamation of genocide.