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UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza <a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a> <time datetime="2025-03-13T08:49:09+00:00" title="13 March 2025 08:49 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 08:49</time> <div class="field field-field-text">Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-can-bear-israels-systematic-use-sexual-reproductive-and-other?sub-site=HRC">new repor</a>t on Thursday. "Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention," said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. Those actions, in addition to causing a surge in maternity deaths due to restricted access to medical supplies, amounted to the crime against humanity of extermination, the commission said. The report accused Israel's security forces of using forced public stripping and sexual assault as part of their standard operating procedures to punish Palestinians since the beginning of the war. </div> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-experts-accuse-israel-genocidal-acts-and-sexual-violence-gaza