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UN calls on Israel to prevent Gaza 'genocide' - Al Jazeera
Also noting the situation in the occupied West Bank, the United Nations rights chief called for Israel to ‘end its unlawful presence in the Palestinian territory’.The United Nations has urged Israel to prevent “acts of genocide” in Gaza and raised concerns over “ethnic cleansing” across the Palestinian territory and the occupied West Bank.A new report investigating Israeli military conduct in the war on Gaza up until May 2025 and published by the UN Human Rights Office on Monday concluded that Israel has committed “serious violations of international humanitarian law, which in many cases may have amounted to war crimes and other atrocity crimes”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Photos: Millions of Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakbalist 2 of 4Palestinian President Abbas casts vote in decisive Fatah electionslist 3 of 4Three community kitchen workers among eight killed by Israel in Gazalist 4 of 4Growing bread queues in Gaza as Israel restricts fuel, flour importsend of listSeveral investigations, including those by the UN and the International Association of Genocide Scholars, have concluded that Israel’s war on the small enclave constituted genocide, with nearly 73,000 people reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health to have been killed.The UN report said while the Israeli army was seeking the return of “hostages” and some attacks hit military targets, many of these killings were “unlawful”.The war that Israel launched following the October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups – which killed around 1,200 and saw 240 taken captive – was halted by a ceasefire in October. But the Israeli military maintains a strict security regime, and many hundreds more have been killed in the past seven months.Conflict monitors warn that since the ceasefire with Iran was struck last month, Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip has accelerated. Violent raids by settlers and the military in the West Bank have also been increasing.The UN report warned that Israel’s “concerted and accelerating practice of undermining the fabric of Palestinian life while consolidating the annexation of large parts” of the occupied territories represents a deeply troubling trajectory.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called upon Israel to “prevent the commission of acts of genocide”, to ensure displaced Palestinians are allowed to return home, and to “end its unlawful presence in the Palestinian territory”.The report als...
UN Demands Israel Prevent 'Genocide' in Gaza
The United Nations demanded Monday that Israel take measures to prevent acts of "genocide" in Gaza, and decried indications of "ethnic cleansing" in the Palestinian territory and in the occupied West Bank. In a fresh report, the UN rights office said Israel's actions in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023 involved "gross violations" of international law, amounting in many cases to "war crimes and other atrocity crimes". UN rights chief Volker Turk called in the report on Israel to ensure compliance with a 2024 International Court of Justice order that it take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, AFP reported. Israel, he said, should ensure "with immediate effect that its military does not engage in acts of genocide, (and take) all measures to prevent and punish incitement to commit genocide". Israel has repeatedly and forcefully denied allegations of genocide, which have previously been brought by rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as independent UN experts, but never by the United Nations directly. - 'Unlawful killings' - Monday's report, which covered the period from October 7, 2023, when Hamas's unprecedented attack inside Israel sparked the Gaza war, up to May 2025, also condemned "serious violations" including some amounting to war crimes, by Palestinian armed groups during the initial attack and after. The Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data. Monday's report highlighted the abuse suffered by the hostages seized by the Palestinian armed groups, many of whom reported torture and sexual abuse as they were held "in inhumane conditions" for months on end. "Most hostages who died in Gaza died while held in secret detention, either killed by their captors or impacts of the conflict occurring around them," it said. Most of the focus however was on Israel's actions in Gaza, where its retaliatory military campaign has killed more than 72,000 people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN. Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in tents and conditions remain dire despite a ceasefire that took effect in October last year. "The ceasefire diminished the immense scale of violence up to that point, and opened some modest humanitarian space," Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN rights office in the occupied Palestinian territo...
UN urges Israel to take measures to prevent genocide in Gaza
The UN has urged Israel to take measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip and condemned signs of ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territories, including the occupied West Bank. A new report by the UN Human Rights Office says that Israel's actions in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023 have been accompanied by gross violations of international law and in many cases may ...
UN warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, urges Israel to prevent genocide
The United Nations on Monday called on Israeli occupation authorities to take all necessary measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip, warning of growing signs of "ethnic cleansing" in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
