Israel committing crimes against humanity in occupied West Bank: UN
Summary
A UN-mandated commission reported that Israeli authorities and forces committed crimes against humanity, including extermination, torture, rape and other sexual violence, in the occupied West Bank. Israel rejected the findings, calling the report a misinformation campaign. The report covered violence since October 2023 and said conditions in the West Bank had sharply worsened.Key Facts
- The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry said Israeli military operations and sustained settler violence amounted to a widespread and systematic attack on civilians.
- The commission said Israeli authorities intended to collectively punish West Bank civilians after Hamas’s October 2023 attack.
- The report also identified persecution based on nationality, race and ethnicity.
- Israel’s mission in Geneva rejected the report and called for the commission to be dissolved.
- The commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021.
- The commission’s report examined killings and bodily and mental harm caused by Israeli and Palestinian security forces since October 2023.
- The UN humanitarian affairs office recorded 1,143 Palestinian deaths in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from October 7, 2023, to October 9, 2026; at least 250 were children.
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