{"id":25459,"date":"2024-11-15T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25459"},"modified":"2024-11-15T05:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T05:55:25","slug":"israels-warfare-in-the-gaza-is-consistent-with-the-characteristics-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/israels-warfare-in-the-gaza-is-consistent-with-the-characteristics-of-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Israel\u2019s warfare in the Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Israel\u2019s warfare in the Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a United Nations committee has said, accusing the country of \u201cusing starvation as a method of war\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-ibbk12\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>In a report published on Thursday, the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices accused the country of\u00a0\u201cusing starvation as a method of war\u201d, resulting in \u201cmass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions\u201d for Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies that strip Palestinians of the very necessities required to sustain life \u2013 food, water, and fuel,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese statements along with the systematic and unlawful interference of humanitarian aid make clear Israel\u2019s intent to instrumentalize life-saving supplies for political and military gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since October 7, 2023, Israel\u2019s war in Gaza has killed at least 43,736 Palestinians and wounded 103,370, the enclave\u2019s Ministry of Health said on Thursday, reported Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>The latest UN report reflects that published in March by UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, who concluded that there are\u00a0\u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>It covers the first nine months of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, which followed the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel in October 2023 in which an estimated 1,139 people were killed and more than 200 taken captive.<\/p>\n<p>The report also pointed out that despite repeated UN appeals as well as\u00a0binding orders from the International Court of Justice\u00a0and UN Security Council Resolutions, Israel continued to inflict \u201ccollective punishment\u201d on the Palestinian population.<\/p>\n<p>By early 2024, more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives \u2013 equivalent to two nuclear bombs \u2013 had been dropped on Gaza, \u201ccausing massive destruction and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, agricultural devastation, and toxic pollution\u201d, the report said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"article-source\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s warfare in the Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a United Nations committee has said, accusing the country of \u201cusing starvation as a method of war\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,338,4,899,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-middle-east","category-news_","category-trending","category-headline"],"views":50,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25462,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions\/25462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}