The mound of the ruins in the area of the unknown tower of soldiers, destroyed by the night of Israeli bombing, is depicted in the neighborhood of Gaza Gaza on September 15, 2025 (Photographic Credit: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)
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On September 16, 2025, the UN International International Committee on occupied Palestinian territory, including Eastern Jerusalem and Israel (Coi), a subsidiary of the Council of Human Rights, concluded, for reasonable reasons, that Israel has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023. reportCOI found that four banned acts were carried out, namely the murders, causing serious physical and mental damage, which deliberately cause living conditions that have been calculated for the destruction and imposition of measures aimed at prevention of births. As Coi concluded, these banned acts were committed by the Israeli authorities and security forces with a specific intention of destroying the Palestinians in Gaza. To make this determination, the COI is said to have been based on extensive indications of “systematic and unprecedented murder, destruction of houses and cultural spaces, deliberate starvation, denial of healthcare, sexual and sexuality and immediate targeting of children”.
Genocide, sometimes referred to as Crime Crime, defined in Article II of the UN Contract for the prevention and punishment of the genocide crime crime (Genocide Convention), is a crime based on identity. It is not enough to show the existence of the prohibited acts as referred to in Article II, but must be directed against one of the protected groups (such as the ethnic, religious, national or racial group) with the specific intention of destroying groups in whole or in part. Due to the claim of this intention, crime is difficult to prove. The Genocide Convention requires states to prevent and punish the crime of genocide and, as explained by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its ruling for 2007 in the case of Bosnia, the duty to prevent resulting at the time the state has learned or learned.
Despite the high rod determined by the definition of genocide in Article II of the Genocide Convention, the situation in Gaza is referred to as genocide by non -governmental organizations and experts in recent months. Among other things in December 2023, South Africa filed a application Conducting proceedings against Israel before ICJ, the UN major judicial body, which citing Israeli violations for its obligations under the Genocide Convention in relation to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. South Africa applied for temporary measures, which were subsequently granted. In December 2024, Amnesty International, non -governmental organization, published a report that analyzes the Palestinian state in Gaza, entitled “You feel like you’re derogatory“By making this finding. In August 2025, the International Association of Genocide scholarsA non -governmental organization that seeks to “further research and teaching about nature, causes and consequences of genocide and promotional studies of policy prevention” issued one resolution Concerning Gaza, which states that it states that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the Genocide Convention. In September 2025, the United Nations Experts, including Francesca Albanese, a Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestinian territories, occupied by 1967He issued an emergency call for an emergency meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in Gaza, citing genocide and starvation data.
The COI report suggests that the statements of the president of Israel, the prime minister and the Minister of Defense are immediate evidence of genocidal intent. In addition, COI concluded that genocide intent is the only reasonable conclusion from all the evidence and having examined the behavior model.
The COI report further reminded that all states have an obligation under international law to prevent and punish the crime of genocide, using all measures at their disposal. COI has identified various recommendations, including Israel to end the genocide immediately and apply a complete permanent ceasefire in Gaza, ensures unhindered access to all United Nations staff, including. Recommendations in all states include the employment of all means that are reasonably available to them to avoid the commitment of genocide to Gaza, to cease the transport of weapons and other equipment or objects, including the fuel of the jet, to the state of Israel or the state of the Israel They involve the Genocide Committee among others.
Gaza proposals in Gaza strongly denied Israel, including ICJ, responding to the case brought by South Africa. At this stage, it is also not clear whether and how states will respond to the COI report, if not at all. Indeed, despite significant reports and warnings on the serious risk of genocide in recent months, only a few states have acted, including Ireland. Others, including the United Kingdom, claim to have carried out their own analysis of the situation and rejected the claims of the genocide, as explained in a recent letter from then Foreign Minister David Lammy to a parliamentary committee.
