UN accuses Israel of war crimes over attacks on Gaza hospitals

A United Nations committee of enquiry has accused Israel of carrying retired a “concerted argumentation to destruct Gaza's healthcare system" during its ongoing warfare with Hamas.

The committee said Israeli attacks connected Gaza’s healthcare facilities and Israel’s attraction of Palestinian detainees amounted to warfare crimes, arsenic good arsenic the transgression against humanity of “extermination”.

Hamas and different Palestinian groups are besides accused of warfare crimes and crimes against humanity for their attraction of Israeli hostages held successful Gaza.

Israel is yet to comment, but has agelong accused the UN of bias and dismissed erstwhile captious reports.

The report, which volition beryllium presented to the UN General Assembly connected 30 October, was led by Navi Pillay, the South African erstwhile UN quality rights chief.

Israeli information forces person “deliberately killed, detained and tortured aesculapian personnel”, the study said, portion children person “borne the brunt” of “the illness of the wellness system".

The committee cites the lawsuit of five-year-old Hind Rajab, whose car was deed arsenic she and her household tried to fly bombing. Several household members were killed, but Hind managed to telephone the Palestinian Red Crescent for help. The ambulance trying to scope her was besides shelled, and Hind, her family, and the ambulance unit each died.

The committee says the attacks connected the healthcare strategy person “inflicted conditions of beingness resulting successful the demolition of generations of Palestinian children and, potentially, the Palestinian radical arsenic a group”.

The study alleges Palestinian equipped groups, including Hamas, person subjected Israeli hostages to "physical violence, abuse, intersexual violence, forced isolation, constricted entree to hygiene facilities, h2o and food, threats and humiliation".

It calls for the contiguous and unconditional merchandise of the remaining hostages.

The study besides expresses interest astir the attraction of thousands of Palestinian detainees, immoderate of them children.

Israeli information forces person subjected them to systematic abuse, including torture, rape and different forms of intersexual violence, the reports alleges.

It straight names Israel’s nationalist information minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, saying the maltreatment took spot “under nonstop orders” from him.

The study contains elaborate grounds and adds to increasing concerns, reflected successful a lawsuit astatine the International Court of Justice and investigations by the International Criminal Court, astatine the behaviour of the widening warfare successful the Middle East.

The warfare began aft Hamas’s unprecedented onslaught connected confederate Israel connected 7 October 2023, successful which astir 1,200 radical were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

More than 42,060 radical person been killed successful Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run wellness ministry.