UN report accuses IDF of genocide and rape in Gaza

‘Anti-Israel circus’ – Israel lambasts United Nations as ‘antisemitic,’ calls latest allegations of genocide and sexual assault a ‘blood libel.’

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

A United Nations report published Thursday accused Israeli soldiers of committing rape and other forms of sexual assault against Gazans while the IDF adhered to ‘genocidal’ policies against Palestinian Arabs in the coastal enclave.

The report was drafted by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a body established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021, following the conflict that year between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

“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,” the commission argued in its report.

Israel’s sealing of the border after October 7th and restrictions on the entry of goods into Gaza, including a period of “total siege,” were among the examples of alleged genocide claimed by the commission.

“The Commission finds that the [Israel security forces] controlled the entry, the content and the amounts of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza and that the ISF deliberately stopped humanitarian assistance which included items essential for pregnant women, new mothers and newborns from reaching Gaza, both through direct attacks and through the imposition of a total siege.”

The commission also claimed to have documented “cases of rape and sexual assault” of male terror suspects held by Israel.

The examples cited included the case of a Hamas terrorist from the elite Nukhba Force who accused Israeli soldiers working as guards at the Sde Teiman detention center of sexually assaulting him.

An attorney representing the soldiers, who are currently facing an investigation into the alleged abuse, said the terrorist in question had injured himself while attempting to smuggle a miniature cell phone in his rectum, and assaulted the accused soldiers after they confronted him.

The commission is chaired by Navi Pillay, a South African jurist accused in the past of anti-Israel bias, following her involvement in the 2001 Durban Conference and the Goldstein Report.

In 2022, she came under fire for defending commission member Miloon Kothari after he denied Israel’s right to be in the UN and claimed that social media platforms were under Jewish control.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu excoriated the commission and the UN Human Rights Council, calling the latter “antisemitic” and accusing it of supporting terrorism.

“The anti-Israel circus known as the UN ‘Human Rights Council’ has long been revealed as an antisemitic, rotten and irrelevant organization that supports terrorism. For good reason Israel decided to quit it approximately one month ago.”

“Instead of focusing on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes that were perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre carried out against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the UN has again chosen to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including baseless accusations of sexual violence.”

“This is not a human rights council; it is a blood rights council.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called Thursday’s report a “blood libel” and a “sick document.”

“It is one of the worst cases of blood libel the world has ever seen (and the world has seen many).”

“It accuses the victims of the crimes committed against them. Hamas is the organization that has committed horrendous sexual crimes against Israelis. It is indeed a sick document that only an antisemitic organization such as the UN could produce.”