A report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concludes that genocide is ongoing in Gaza. Its authors point to the responsibility of Israeli leaders and call on states to act. Its publication has drawn little reaction in Europe. Presenting the findings of the latest report in Geneva on Tuesday, Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, did not prolong the suspense: “The Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and that it continues to commit this genocide,” she told reporters. In their detailed 72-page report, the result of two years of investigation, the three members of the Commission conclude that the “Israeli authorities and the country’s security forces” have committed, and continue to commit, four of the five acts of genocide defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. These acts are: killing members of the ...
