A new UN report accuses Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip

Israel in Gaza is implementing policies that deliberately deprive the population of the resources to live.For the UN Special Committee it is genocide.

• Israel is intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury in the Gaza Strip.
• The devastation affects not only the present, but also future generations.
• This modus operandi presents the characteristics of genocide, according to the UN Special Committee.

Israel's offensive on Gaza Strip presents the characteristics of genocide.To speak in this sense is a new relationship of UN special committee, which emphasizes the enormous number of civilian casualties and on the conditions imposed on Palestinians by the Israeli army, which intentionally put their lives in danger.

It is not the first time that theUN uses the word genocide in connection with Israeli operations on Palestinian territory since October 7, 2023.Now, with the official death toll that he passed share 43 thousand, the complaint is even stronger.

Hunger as a weapon of war

Covering the period from October 2023 to July 2024, the United Nations Special Committee assessed the impact on the Palestinian population of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

The document highlights that since the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported actions and policies aimed at depriving Palestinians of the resources they need to live, such as food, water and fuel.“Israel is intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury, using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishments to the Palestinian population", highlights the UN report.

A focus is placed on the quantity of explosive dropped by the Israeli army on Gaza, which at the beginning of 2024 corresponded to 25 thousand tons, the equivalent of two atomic bombs.The international media Al Jazeera in recent research he provided more updated data:in one year Israel used 75 thousand tons of explosives on Palestinian territory, producing more than 42 million tons of debris.

The UN also underlines that the devastation of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army does not only concern the present, but also the future.“Destroying the vital systems of water, sanitation and food and by contaminating the environment, Israel has created a lethal mix of crises that will inflict serious damage on future generations,” the report reads.

The UN talks about genocide, again

One of the problems highlighted by the UN concerns the massive use ofartificial intelligence for attacks on the Gaza Strip, without any distinction between military and civilian objectives.“When a three-year-old girl is killed in a house in Gaza, it is because someone in the army decided that it was no big deal to kill her, that it was a price to pay for hitting a target,” he explained an Israeli intelligence source quoted by the Israeli media +972 Magazine.An element that explains why almost 70 percent of the Palestinian victims of Israel's attacks are women and girls, as highlighted by the UN in another report at the beginning of November.

After a group of UN experts in November 2023 he had underlined that the Palestinian population ran the real risk of suffering a genocide and that in April 2024 in front of the European Parliament the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, he had said that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that Israel has committed genocide has been reached”, now a new UN report expressly accuses Israel of genocidal methods of warfare.And it calls on the international community to do everything possible in legal terms to prevent and stop the violations of international law by Israel, ceasing to “support the assault on Gaza and the apartheid system in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”