UN commission accuses Israel of 'extermination' in controversial report

Israel is accused of committing "the transgression against humanity of extermination" and impeding spiritual freedoms successful a caller United Nations report.

The U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry connected the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel (COI) issued a scathing 19-page report. 

In a summary of the report, the COI said it "examines violations of planetary quality rights law, planetary humanitarian instrumentality and imaginable planetary crimes relating to attacks against acquisition facilities and spiritual and taste sites." However, the COI appears to beryllium harsher connected Israel than Palestinian authorities. 

Israeli Permanent Member to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a league of the Security Council astatine the New York City headquarters. (Israel United Nations Mission)

In its conclusion, the COI offers 13 recommendations for Israel, 2 for "the de facto authorities successful Gaza," 2 for "the Government of the State of Palestine," and 2 for each U.N. subordinate states.

The study is already sparking controversy, with the U.S. ngo and ineligible experts expressing concerns implicit its content.

"The latest study from this U.N.'s kangaroo tribunal is simply a frightening denotation of the antisemitism and incitement to unit dispersed by the United Nations connected a planetary scale," Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices told Fox News Digital.

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Among its galore accusations against Israel, immoderate of the astir egregious see claims that Israel is restricting spiritual freedoms, citing its power implicit beatified sites successful Jerusalem. The COI stated successful its study that Palestinian worshipers were "subjected to accrued information checks, checkpoints, harassment and assault, and criteria, linked to age, sex and spot of residence, person been applied by Israeli authorities to restrict which Palestinians are allowed to enter" the Temple Mount. The committee besides claims that a "religious leader" was arrested soon aft Oct. 7 implicit a sermon helium gave astatine the mosque without explaining what was said. 

Furthermore, the committee besides complained that "extremist Jews and right-wing politicians" were permitted "on aggregate occasions to participate the tract with a constabulary escort, commune and origin provocation, contempt a long-standing prohibition against Jewish prayer." The COI appeared to instrumentality greater contented with Jews praying than with the prohibition connected their quality to bash so, contempt claiming to admonish restrictions connected spiritual freedoms.

"They assertion Jews exclude non-Jews from spiritual sites erstwhile the nonstop other is true. Only Israel protects state of religion for Christians, Muslims and Jews, portion Jews person been banned and Jewish spiritual sites person been systematically trashed by Palestinian Arabs for a century," Bayefsky told Fox News Digital.

In effect to a Fox News Digital petition for comment, a State Department spokesperson said that the U.S. "firmly" opposes "this COI’s open-ended and vaguely defined mandate" and that it does not "support its engagement successful investigating the existent struggle fixed our reservations astir its operation and approach."

Israeli and UN flags extracurricular the United Nations office successful New York. 

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"To beryllium clear, Palestinians are going done sheer hellhole successful this struggle and a batch of that is due to the fact that Hamas has enactment them successful an intolerable situation. We’ve been wide that Israel has a close to instrumentality enactment against Hamas, but we’ve besides been conscionable arsenic wide that Israel indispensable instrumentality each precaution imaginable to support civilians," the spokesperson added.

In different portion of the report, the COI notes that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA) documented 42 instances from Oct. 7, 2023, to March 15, 2024, successful which "parties to the conflict" interfered with its schools.  

In effect to a Fox News Digital petition for remark and clarification connected whether Hamas utilized its schools, UNRWA reiterated its condemnations of "any enactment to the conflict" utilizing its facilities for "military oregon warring purposes."

"Since the commencement of the war, UNRWA has repeatedly condemned the usage of UN facilities by immoderate enactment to the struggle for subject oregon warring purposes. We person repeatedly called for autarkic probe and accountability for the blatant disregard of UN unit lives, premises and operations," a spokesperson for UNRWA told Fox News Digital. "We reiterate our telephone connected each parties to the struggle to respect the sanctity and neutrality of UN installations."

While UNRWA did not straight code whether Hamas utilized its facilities, the committee said that Israeli forces caused "the bulk of harm to acquisition facilities." While the committee mentions Israel’s assertion that Hamas has operated retired of these schools, it besides says that the panic enactment "contested" the allegation. 

A presumption of the United Nations Headquarters gathering successful New York City, United States connected July 16, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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In its recommendations for Israel, the committee calls connected Jerusalem to "cease the usage of acquisition facilities and taste sites for subject purposes." It besides recommended that "de facto authorities successful Gaza" — Hamas — "cease utilizing civilian objects for subject purposes."

The committee besides calls connected Israel to "provide effective, capable and punctual remedy for victims of quality rights violations, including surviving household members," but makes nary specified demands of those liable for atrocities committed connected Oct. 7.