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to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on Wednesday concluded that Israel i forces have been carrying out several crimes against humanity on the civilian population in Gaza , including a campaign of “extermination” that has ramped up since the current military offensive began more than eight months ago.was conducted by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel .
Many of the acts were also included in the commission’s previous list of Israel’s crimes against humanity, in addition to extermination and gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys., is that crimes against humanity can also occur in peacetime rather than solely amid armed conflict. The report did not conclude that Palestinian militants engaged specifically in crimes against humanity.
A Palestinian boy salvages items from a damaged apartment on June 18 following overnight Israeli strikes in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence are essentially embedded into the Israeli military’s operating procedures, according to the report. The commission “made the finding due to the frequency, prevalence and severity of the violations, which include public stripping and nudity intended to humiliate the community at large and accentuate the subordination of an occupied people.”
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