UN officials accuse Israel of attempting ‘extermination’ of Palestinians

According to the U.N. human rights office, the Israeli military may have committed several war crimes and hasn’t done anything to safeguard civilians throughout its genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza.

At an additional U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, the head of a U.N. Commission of Inquiry declared that the extent of civilian casualties in Palestine amounted to “extermination.” The former South African judge Navi Pillay stated in her assessment that the deployment of weapons with significant destructive potential in heavily populated regions “constitutes an intentional and direct attack on civilian population” and that those guilty should be held accountable.

According to a United Nations study, Israeli forces “may have systematically violated” the principles of distinction, focusing on six operations that caused widespread deaths and destroyed civilian infrastructure.