In its most comprehensive findings yet about Israel’s conduct in the conflict, a South African judge-led United Nations Commission investigating the war in Gaza has concluded that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians. This is the strongest condemnation yet of Israeli actions that have followed in retaliation against a Hamas-led attack on civilians on October 7, 2023.

The report of genocide comes even as Israel launched a ground offensive on Tuesday aimed at decimating the Hamas but which, in effect, is a war against around a million Palestinian people who may to move out of Gaza City. The inhumanity of the situation is appalling as the Palestinians who, as pawns in Israel’s war against the Hamas, have faced death, maiming, famine and destruction for close to two years.

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