A United Nations investigation, called a Commission of Inquiry, has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Genocide is defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, in this case, Palestinians in Gaza. There are five acts of genocide defined under international law, and this new report says that four out of the five acts have been carried out by Israel since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023.
A number of international and Israeli human rights organisations, independent UN experts and scholars, have also accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry has rejected the report, saying that it is distorted and false. Let's have our first headline. This one is from The Independent, a newspaper in the UK.
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