GENEVA, June 23 (Reuters) - Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday.
The report by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Around 30% of those killed in the Gaza war were children, the report found. A previous report by the commission in September found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited these acts — accusations that Israel called scandalous.
The U.N. commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. It said this was a key element establishing genocidal intent by Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.
It already has. Beyond any shadow of a doubt.
It would have to be a decision decided and recorded by the International Court of Justice.
Why? Why would that be necessary given that there’s more readily available and verified evidence and damning statements of purpose by Israeli leaders than grains of sand on all the beaches of Brazil?
To question whether Israel has committed war crimes is not just ludicrous. It’s Scientology times Jonestown level cult bullshit.
Essentially it would be a trial with Israel facing off against its accuser. The verdict would be more credible than just a report.