UN inquiry accuses Israel of crimes against humanity in destroying Gaza’s hospitals
Israel’s government did not cooperate with the investigation, which accused Israel of the international crime of “extermination” for widespread and systematic attacks on Gaza’s health care infrastructure and medical personnel.
A United Nations inquiry into Israeli military strikes on Gaza’s health care infrastructure found a deliberate pattern that it said amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including that of “extermination.”
The investigatory committee focused on Israeli assaults on four hospitals in different areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as attacks on health care workers and ambulances, concluding in a report released Oct. 10 “that Israel has implemented a concerted policy to destroy the health care system of Gaza.”
“Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of willful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination,” the report found.
“The actions of Israel violate international humanitarian law and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and they are in stark contravention of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of July 2024,” the report said.
