UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 Februaryâ5 April 2024
Agenda item 7
Human Rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territoriesAnatomy of a Genocide
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese*Summary
After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Over 12,000 are presumed dead and 71,000 injured, many with life-changing mutilations. Seventy percent of residential areas have been destroyed. Eighty percent of the whole population has been forcibly displaced. Thousands of families have lost loved ones or have been wiped out. Many could not bury and mourn their relatives, forced instead to leave their bodies decomposing in homes, in the street or under the rubble. Thousands have been detained and systematically subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. The incalculable collective trauma will be experienced for generations to come.
By analysing the patterns of violence and Israelâs policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israelâs commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israelâs executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
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