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- A United Nations report alleges Israel systematically destroyed women’s healthcare facilities in Gaza.
- The report also alleges Israel carried out “genocidal acts” and used sexual violence as a war strategy.
- Israel rejected the accusations and said the report was biased and lacked credibility.
“Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention,” said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
The report accused Israel’s security forces of using forced public stripping and sexual assault as part of their standard operating procedures to punish Palestinians following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel in October 2023.
A previous report published by the Commission in June 2024 accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of serious rights violations in its October 7 2023 attack, including torture and degrading treatment.
South Africa has brought a genocide case against Israel’s actions in Gaza at the ICJ.
That triggered a devastating war in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.
