A United Nations commission investigating the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza has accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the panel said that Israel’s conduct of the war included crimes against humanity.
The U.N. report said that Palestinian armed groups killed and tortured people during the assaults that day.
But Israel, during its monthslong campaign in Gaza to oust Hamas, has also committed war crimes, the commission said, like the use of starvation as a weapon of war through a total siege of Gaza.
The commission said it had identified the people most responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity, including senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups and senior members of Israel’s political and military leadership, including members of its war cabinet.
The commission said it would continue its investigations focusing on those with individual criminal responsibility and command or superior responsibility.
Persons:
—, Israel, Sergey Ponomarev, Abed Khaled, repugnantly ”, Chris Sidoti, Miloon
Organizations:
United Nations, Navi Pillay, United, International Court of Justice, The New York Times, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Reuters, West Bank
Locations:
Israel, Gaza, United Nations, Al, Aqsa, Deir Al, Geneva, Turkey, Egypt