Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry (www.theguardian.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 09:47
https://lemmy.ml/post/36223976

UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it.

The United Nations independent international commission of inquiry (COI), which does not speak on behalf of the UN and has been criticised strongly by Israel, cited the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic in the territory to support its genocide finding.

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geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 10:03 next collapse

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CluckN@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 11:54 next collapse

Once the UN commission of Strongly Worded Letters steps in we will see some progress.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:46 collapse

What do you want them to do? A commission goal is to investigate and come to an conclussion then it is the job of the UN members to do their obligations and do actions based on that finding

CluckN@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:51 next collapse

I want both parties to cover themselves in oil and wrestle.

markko@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:35 next collapse

I don’t think the previous comment was directed at the commission.

The world has been watching the genocide for nearly 2 years now and no meaningful action has been taken to stop it by any country.

I think the point that was being made is that the UN appears to be completely powerless as long as the US continues to back Israel (and still has veto power in the security council).

mrdown@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:37 collapse

He literally said un commission rather than the UN. And the UN is also constituted from many entities some have no executive power. Blaming icj specifically is something i agree eith there is no reason why it take them so long to admit the genocide

markko@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:57 collapse

I’m not going to argue about what @CluckN@sh.itjust.works meant, but it seemed pretty clear to me that the problem is all of the countries who aren’t doing anything.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:37 next collapse

but it seemed pretty clear to me that the problem is all of the countries who aren’t doing anything.

I agree

CluckN@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 18:34 collapse

Yeah no idea what that bozo is thinking

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 16:53 collapse

Not taking two years to determine the most obvious genocide in world history would be nice.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:40 next collapse

I said that in a previous comment it’s the ICJ part of the UN that is problematic. They have all the evidences and still didn’t declare it as a genocide. They took 12 years after it ended to declare the Bosnia genocide

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 06:43 collapse

For sure, but there are also other UN commissions which completely failed at their job, and this is one of them.

This commission itself should be prosecuted for being complicit in genocide.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 12:23 collapse

For sure, but there are also other UN commissions which completely failed at their job, and this is one of them

What do you mean? They where asked to prove there is a genocide , they concluded there is a genocide so where is the failure?

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 16:33 collapse

Time window.

copd@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 05:49 collapse

Sorry but as horrific and clear as it is. this isn’t the most obvious genocide in world history.

do you even know what has happened ho historically?

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 06:42 collapse

Which genocide are you referring to?

Stamets@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:12 next collapse

You don’t fucking say. What convinced you? Was it the Geno or the Cide?

Sidhean@piefed.social on 16 Sep 15:21 next collapse

Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report and called for the COI to be abolished. Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, called the report a scandalous and fake “libellous rant” that had been authored by “Hamas proxies”. Israel has declined to cooperate with the COI, accusing it of having a political agenda.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 07:19 next collapse

An ad hominem denial

mrdown@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 16:43 collapse

Nobody gives a damn about israel opinion

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 15:51 next collapse

By now, given the whole purposeful mass killing of civilians by Starvation, it’s probably at the level of a Holocaust.

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 06:10 next collapse

Oh, they must have only just woken up and had a coffee…

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 17 Sep 07:36 collapse

performative action to satiate the critics.

pH3ra@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 08:19 next collapse

No waaaay…

D_C@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 08:38 next collapse

Brilliant. Now we’ve got the obvious out of the way, what the fuck is anyone or anything with power going to do about it?

Nfamwap@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 12:32 next collapse

Oooh, I know this one…

Fuck all!

Evotech@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 16:59 collapse

Nothing as long as the US backs them 100%

wowwoweowza@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 17:15 collapse

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