What the UN’s 72-page investigation report on Gaza says

Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The United Nations has admitted this for the first time. The three-member committee of the organization's independent international investigation commission made this comment in a 72-page report on Tuesday. At a press conference, the commission's chairman and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said that Israel is responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Israel has committed acts that meet the criteria for genocide as specified in the Genocide Convention.

The report says that Israel committed four of the five acts defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention. They are - killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately creating a situation of destruction of the group and taking measures to prevent births. The report directly blames Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and President Isaac Herzog.

The killing of civilians in Gaza has also been called a 'crime against humanity'. However, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has rejected the report as 'fake' and 'Hamas propaganda'. The ministry's statement said that the three experts on the commission are acting as Hamas representatives and have prepared the report based on Hamas' lies, which have been refuted many times with evidence.

In this incident, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is being isolated internationally. In the long term, they will have to stand on their own feet. In addition, Israel's economy must become more self-sufficient. However, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that isolation is not fate, but the result of Netanyahu's failed policies.

Amidst this criticism of the genocide, Israel has resumed ground operations in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that an 'intense operation' has begun in Gaza and that this is an important military phase for Israel. Already, about 40 percent of Gaza City's residents have fled to the south. Many people are being forced to flee to the al-Mawasi camp, where they have little access to sanitation, regular water or basic services.

Health officials and aid workers say hospitals are running out of emergency medical supplies and medicines as the ongoing offensive to capture Gaza's main city continues. Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital, said premature babies are at risk.

On Tuesday, the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis said two children had died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, bringing the death toll from starvation to 425. Meanwhile, the UN children's agency UNICEF warned that a ground offensive on Gaza would exacerbate the suffering of children, with some 450,000 children already injured, exhausted and facing starvation.

Germany later condemned the Israeli ground offensive on Gaza as a "complete mistake". Meanwhile, Hannah Bond, CEO of international humanitarian charity ActionAid, welcomed the UN commission of inquiry's decision. Bond called on the UK government to immediately halt all Israeli arms exports or risk being complicit.

Amnesty International also called on the UK to take immediate and decisive action to prevent and punish the ongoing massacre in Gaza following the UN report.