Jerusalem:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denounced as “false and absurd” a UN investigation that concluded Israel had committed “genocidal acts” in the Gaza Strip.
“The anti-Israeli circus known as the UN Human Rights Council has long been exposed as an anti-Semitic, corrupt, terror-supporting, and irrelevant body,” Netanyahu stated in a release from his office.
“Instead of focusing on crimes against humanity and the war crimes committed by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the UN once again chooses to attack the state of Israel with false accusations, including absurd claims” of destroying sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities in Gaza, he added.
Earlier on Thursday, the UN Commission of Inquiry reported that Israel had “intentionally attacked and destroyed” the main fertility center in the Palestinian territory and had simultaneously imposed a siege, blocking aid, including medications essential for safe pregnancies, deliveries, and neonatal care.
The commission stated that Israeli authorities “have partially destroyed the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare,” according to a statement.
It described this as amounting to “two categories of genocidal acts” during Israel’s offensive in Gaza, which was launched following the attacks by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The three-member Independent International Commission of Inquiry was established by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to investigate alleged violations of international law in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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