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Anatomy of a Genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/55/73)

Here's the summary from relief web (for some reason i can't retrieve the link to the rw page)


Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 7
Human Rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories

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 Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israel's 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.

I. Introduction

1. In this report, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 (“oPt”), addresses the crime of genocide as perpetrated by the State of Israel (“Israel”) in the oPt, specifically in the Gaza Strip, since 7 October 2023. As Israel prohibits her visits, this report is based on data and analyses from organisations on the ground, international jurisprudence, investigative reports and consultations with affected individuals, authorities, civil society and experts.
2. The Special Rapporteur firmly condemns the crimes committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Israel on 7 October and urges accountability and the release of hostages.1This report does not examine those events, as they are beyond the geographic scope of her mandate.2 Nor does it examine the situation in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.
3. Since it imposed the siege on Gaza in 2007, which tightened the closure imposed since 1993, Israel, the occupying power, has carried out five major assaults before the present one.
4. By Day 9, this assault had already caused more deaths (2,670)3 than Israel’s previous deadliest war against Gaza, in 2014 (2,251)4 . Only a fraction of the mass killing, severe harm and ruthless, life-threatening conditions inflicted on Palestinians over the following five months of assault can be captured in this report.
5. UN independent experts,5 scholars,6 and states,7 including South Africa before the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”),8 have warned that acts committed in this latest onslaught may amount to genocide. The ICJ found a plausible risk of “irreparable prejudice” to the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group under the Genocide Convention,9 and ordered Israel, inter alia, to “take all measures within its power” to prevent genocidal acts, prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and ensure urgent humanitarian aid.10 6. In its defense, Israel has argued that its conduct complies with international humanitarian law (“IHL”).11 A key finding of this report is that Israel has strategically invoked the IHL framework as “humanitarian camouflage” to legitimize its genocidal violence in Gaza.
6. The context, facts and analysis presented in this report lead to the conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. More broadly, they also indicate that Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler-colonial project in Palestine, signalling a tragedy foretold."

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So the NYT eventually "comes clean" about the two sisters killed on Oct. 7 Israeli Soldier’s Video Undercuts Medic’s Account of Sexual Assault

Kibbutz residents concluded that two sisters killed on Oct. 7 were not victims of sexual violence.Full Article:

By Adam Rasgon and Natan Odenheimer
Reporting from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
March 25, 2024
New video has surfaced that undercuts the account of an Israeli military paramedic who said two teenagers killed in the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7 were sexually assaulted.
The unnamed paramedic, from an Israeli commando unit, was among dozens of people interviewed for a Dec. 28 article by The New York Times that examined sexual violence on Oct. 7. He said he discovered the bodies of two partially clothed teenage girls in a home in Kibbutz Be’eri that bore signs of sexual violence.
The Associated Press, CNN and The Washington Post reported similar accounts from a military paramedic who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But footage taken by an Israeli soldier who was in Be’eri on Oct. 7, which was viewed by leading community members in February and by The Times this month, shows the bodies of three female victims, fully clothed and with no apparent signs of sexual violence, at a home where many residents had believed the assaults occurred.
Though it is unclear if the medic was referring to the same scene, residents said that in no other home in Be’eri were two teenage girls killed, and they concluded from the video that the girls had not been sexually assaulted.Nili Bar Sinai, a member of a group from the kibbutz that looked into claims of sexual assault at the house, said, “This story is false.”Reached by The Times, the medic declined to say whether he still stood by the account, saying he would like to put the attacks behind him.Later, an Israeli military spokesman said that the medic stood by his testimony but might have misremembered the place where he saw the teenage girls. The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the attacks on Oct. 7 are the subject of an active police investigation, said the medic operated in several villages that weekend and might have seen the teenagers in a different kibbutz. The spokesman did not specify which one. There is no complete public record of how every victim of the Oct. 7 attack was killed.The paramedic’s account was a prominent example in international news reports describing sexual violence on Oct. 7, and The Times reported that Be’eri was one of at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appeared to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated.

A United Nations report that was released this month said there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that sexual violence, including r*pe and gang r*pe, was committed in multiple locations, and “clear and convincing information” that some hostages being held in Gaza had also been subjected to r*pe and sexual torture.

The report said the U.N. team was unable to establish whether sexual violence occurred in Be’eri and that at least two Be’eri cases reported in the news media were determined to be “unfounded,” but it did not explicitly specify a military paramedic’s account.

The report added that the team “received credible information” about bodies found naked, tied or gagged in Be’eri and that “circumstantial evidence — notably the pattern of female victims found undressed and bound — may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence.”
Beyond Be’eri, while detailing the daunting challenges the team faced in trying to determine what happened on Oct. 7, the report said there were “reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of sexual violence took place” at or around the Nova music festival and “credible information” of two rapes on a main road from the festival as well as a “verified” case in Kibbutz Re’im.
Hamas leaders have denied the accusations of sexual violence, and the U.N. report, noting the array of fighters who took part in the Oct. 7 attacks, said the experts’ mission was not to determine who was responsible.

The paramedic, a reservist in a special-operations rescue unit within the Air Force, had described finding one of the girls lying on her side, boxer shorts torn and bruises by her groin. The other, he said, had her face flat on the ground, with pajamas pulled to her knees, her bottom exposed and semen smeared on her back.
The Israeli military had allowed the paramedic to speak with reporters on the condition that he not be identified because he serves in an elite unit.
The new video that the community members have seen shows the bodies of two female victims in a corridor outside a safe room, with blood stains on their clothing and the floor. In a nearby room, a third person was filmed on the floor in a pool of blood, wearing pajama pants and a sweatshirt.
A reporter for the Times who viewed the video confirmed the identities of the victims with Ms. Bar Sinai and three members of the kibbutz who knew the family. They identified them as two sisters and their mother. The three kibbutz members asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.
The video first became known to the kibbutz on Feb. 12, when soldiers in the unit that had found the sisters’ remains returned to Be’eri for a tour led by kibbutz members, according to those four members.

While visiting the home, kibbutz members discussed the allegations of sexual assault. Taken aback, the troops shared the eight-second video clip, the four Be’eri members said.
“What happened to them was horrifying, but it was a great relief to find out they weren’t sexually assaulted,” Ms. Bar Sinai said.
At least 97 civilians were killed in Be’eri, a small community just east of Gaza that was one of the hardest hit by the Hamas-led attack.
The military paramedic was not the only person who had described evidence of sexual assault in Be’eri. Many community members had come to believe that the teenage sisters were victims of sexual violence because of other accounts, including from emergency response volunteers who spoke about this incident publicly.
“Until recently, we all thought it was true,” said Amit Solvy, a neighbor.

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Things That Have Been Discredited During The Destruction Of Gaza

List of things that have been discredited during the destruction of Gaza:

• Israel

• the “rules-based international order”

• liberals

• the label “antisemitism”

• the mainstream media

• Joe Biden

• the “two-state solution” myth

• Bernie Sanders

• Robert F Kennedy Jr

• the label “terrorist”

• the “human shields” lie

• the ADL

• AIPAC

• the US war machine

• right wing “free speech” supporters

• the Democratic Party

• the Republican Party

• Zionism

• all western governments

• all of western civilization

• everything westerners believe about their society

Electronic Intifada Article,

Al Jazeera live updates.

Israel promises to press on with offensive

Israel has dismissed Hamas’s ceasefire demands as “delusional” after the group said it was sticking to its original proposal calling for Israel’s full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a permanent ceasefire.
In a statement on Twitter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Hamas’s unwillingness to back away from its “extreme” demands shows that it is not serious about “continuing negotiations”.
Instead, Israel will continue its military offensive to achieve all its war objectives, the statement said, including securing the release of Israeli captives still in Gaza and fully dismantling Hamas.

Undeterred by UN resolution, Israel keeps pounding Gaza

What we’re seeing on the ground right now is the Israeli military completely ignoring the UN Security Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire.

Israeli forces have continued to pound the Gaza Strip, killing people in Rafah city – in the central area and in the north.

They have also continued to operate aggressively around public facilities, mainly health facilities. Most, if not all, of those facilities in the north have been pushed completely out of service. They’ve been transformed from places of healing into graveyards.

Israeli air strike near al-Shifa kills 30 people

An Israeli air strike on a family home near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has killed 30 people, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports, citing local medical sources.

Intense fighting has taken place in and around al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest medical facility, for more than a week as Israeli forces continue large-scale operations there.

Death toll from Rafah attack rises to 18

Eighteen people have been killed in an overnight Israeli bombing of a house in Rafah, with nine children among the victims, according to our colleagues reporting on the ground.
Israeli shelling in the Nassr neighbourhood, northeast of Rafah, has also caused casualties.
The attacks in Gaza’s southern district, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are displaced, come despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the first such resolution to pass in the nearly six-month war.

Israeli jets strike more than 60 targets across Gaza: Army

Israeli warplanes have hit more than 60 targets across Gaza, mainly in support of the ground forces, according to the Israeli army.
The targets included attack tunnels and buildings where fighters were present, a statement on X said.
It said the army’s operation at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital continues, with troops killing several fighters and capturing weapons over the past day.
The army also reportedly struck the launch sites in northern Gaza, from which rockets were fired towards the southern Israeli city of Sderot yesterday.
The statement added that troops continued their raids in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, seized weapons and military equipment, killed fighters and destroyed infrastructure.
The Israeli army has been conducting large-scale operations around al-Shifa Hospital and in Khan Younis.

Palestinians drown trying to get aid airdropped into sea: Report

At least seven Palestinians have drowned after they swam into the Mediterranean Sea trying to get aid that was airdropped there, the AFP news agency reports, citing Gaza’s Health Ministry.
At least five other people are missing in the waters off Gaza, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
They were among hundreds of people who swam into the sea near as-Sudaniya northwest of Gaza City after parcels of aid were airdropped there.
“Why can’t those who deliver aid deliver it through the crossings?“ Muhammad Sobeih, one Gaza resident who went into the sea to get aid, told Al Jazeera. “The crossings are safer and easier.”
Earlier this month, at least five Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza when an airdropped aid package fell on them after its parachute failed to open, fuelling more criticism of the aid delivery method.

Israeli dates being sold as South African ones in a British supermarket.

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When will this clown who constantly brays for conflict... go and fight on an actual battlefield?

Accused of p***philia? Run to Israel. It's a safe harbor, just ask Diddy.

US says Israel’s claim UN resolution hampered hostage talks is ‘inaccurate’

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has told reporters the Palestinian group Hamas’s response to a proposal for the release of captives was prepared before the US abstained on the UN Security Council vote on Monday, not after.
“That statement, which I believe said that Hamas pulled out of the hostage talks, or Hamas rejected the most recent proposal because of the United Nations Security Council Resolution – that statement is inaccurate in almost every respect and it is unfair for the hostages and their families,” Miller told reporters.
“For the United States, we are not going to engage in rhetorical distractions on this issue. We are going to continue to work to try to bring the hostages home,” he added.