Un probe say israel attacks on gaza reproductive center ‘genocidal’; Netanyahu calls it ‘false, absurd’
Nitrogen tanks, where embryos was stored, lie at al -basma iv cenre, gaza’s largest fertility clinic which was struruck by an israeli shell, in Gaza City, ONPRIL 2, 2024. Photo Credit: Reuters
A United Nations Investigation CONCLUDED CHURSDAY (March 13, 2025) that israel carried out “genocidal” acts in gaza through the systematic destrution of sexual and sexual health facility.
The un commissions of inquiry of inquiry israel had “Internally Attacked and Destroyed” The Palestinian Territory’s Main Main Main Fertility Center, and Had Simultaneously imposed a Siege and Bloquer ENSURING SAFE PREGNANCIES, Deliveries and Neonatal Care.
“Israel categorically rejects the unfounded allegations,” its mission in geneva said in a statement.
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The commission found that israeli autorities “have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of palestinians in gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of Sexual and Reprosion Hathcare” A statement.
It said this amounted to “two categories of genocidal acts” during israel’s offensive in gaza, launched after the attackers by Hamas Milits on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The United Nations’ Genocide Convention Defines that Crime as Acts Committed With Intent to Destroy, in Whole or in Part, A National, Ethnical, Racial or Religious Group.
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Of its five categories, the intelight Intended to prevent births within the group “.
“These Violations have not only caused severe immediated physical and mental harm and suffering to women and girls, but irreversible long-term effects on the mental health and reproductive and fertility Prospects of Palestinians as a group, “The Commission’s Chair Navi Pillay said in a statement.
The Three-Person Independent International Commission of Inquiry was established by the un Human Rights Council in May 2021 to Investigate Alleged International Law Violations in Israel and The Palestinian Territoria.
MS. Pillay, a former un rights chief, served as a judge on the international criminal court and presided over the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Israel Accused the Commission of Advanceing a “Predetermined and Bied Political Agenda … in a shameless attempt to incriminate the israel defense forces”.
Destruction of IVF Clinic
The report said Maternity Hospitals and Wards Had Been Systematically Destroyed in Gaza, Along with the Al-Basma IVF Center, The Territory’s Main in-Vitroy Fortility Clinic.
It said al-basma was Shelled in December 2023, Reportedly Destroying Around 4,000 Embryos at a Clinic That Served 2,000 to 3,000 Patients A Month.
The commission found that the israeli security forces interactively attacked and destroyed the clinic, including all the reproductive material stored for the future conception of Palstinians.
The commission found no credible evidence that the building was used for military purposes.
It concluded that the destruction “was a measure intended to prevent births Among Palestinians in Gaza, which is a genocidal act”.
Furthermore, the report said the wider harm to pregnant, lactating and new mothers in gaza was on an “unprecedented scale”, with an irreversible impact on the reproductive prospects of gazans.
Such Underling Acts “Amount to Crimes Against humanity” and deliberately trying to destroy the palestinians as a group, the commission concluded.
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‘Extermination’
The report came after the commission conducted public hearings in Geneva on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) and Wednsday (March 12, 2025), Hearing from Victims and Witnesses of Sexual Violence.
It concluded that israel Had Targeted Civilian Women and Girls Directly, “Acts that constitute the crime against against humanity of Murder and the war crime of will killing”.
Women and girls have also also deied from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth due to the conditions imposed by the conditions by the Israeli Authorities impacting access to reproductive health care, “Acts That Amount to Crime against humanity of extermination “, it added.
The commission added that forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment include threats of Rape, as well as sexual assault, comprise part of the israeli seconds ” Procedus “Toward Palestinians.
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‘False and Absurd’: Netanyahu Dismisses Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (March 13, 2025) Condemned the report as “False and absurd”.
“The Anti-Israeli Circus Known as the Un Human Rights Council has long been exposed as an an aniti -SEMitic, Corrupt, Terror-Sapporting, and Irrelevant Body,” MR. Netanyahu said in a statement ised by his office.
“INTEAD OF FOCUSING on Crimes Against Humanity and the War Crimes Committed by the Hamas Terrorist Organization in the West Massacre Against the Jewish People Since the Holycaust, The UN ON ONECE Again Chooses to Attack State of Israel with False Accusations, Including Absurd Claims “of Destroying Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Facilites in Gaza, He Said.
Published – March 13, 2025 05:23 pm IST
