Jerusalem:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned as “false and absurd” a UN investigation that discovered Israel had dedicated “genocidal acts” within the Gaza Strip.
“The anti-Israeli circus often called the UN Human Rights Council has lengthy been uncovered as an anti-Semitic, corrupt, terror-supporting, and irrelevant physique,” Netanyahu stated in a press release issued by his workplace.
“As an alternative of specializing in crimes in opposition to humanity and the struggle crimes dedicated by the Hamas terrorist organisation within the worst bloodbath in opposition to the Jewish individuals because the Holocaust, the UN as soon as once more chooses to assault the state of Israel with false accusations, together with absurd claims” of destroying sexual and reproductive healthcare amenities in Gaza, he stated.
Earlier on Thursday, the UN Fee of Inquiry stated Israel had “deliberately attacked and destroyed” the Palestinian territory’s fundamental fertility centre, and had concurrently imposed a siege and blocked help together with medicine for guaranteeing protected pregnancies, deliveries and neonatal care.
The fee discovered that Israeli authorities “have destroyed partially the reproductive capability of Palestinians in Gaza as a bunch by means of the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare”, it stated in a press release.
It stated this amounted to “two classes of genocidal acts” throughout Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched after the assaults by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The three-person Impartial Worldwide Fee of Inquiry was established by the UN Human Rights Council in Might 2021 to analyze alleged worldwide regulation violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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