The evidence is riding a “concerted campaign to erase Palestinian life in Gaza,” said the President of the Commission.
Israel has committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by attacking Palestinian civilians housing in schools and religious sites in Gaza, according to an independent report from the United Nations Commission.
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry into the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, accusing a report published on Tuesday.
The report also indicates that the Israeli forces have committed war crimes, “including the realization of attacks on civilians and the deliberate murder, in their attacks against educational establishments that caused civilian victims”.
“We are seeing more and more indications that Israel stages a concerted campaign to erase Palestinian life in Gaza,” the president of the Commission Navi Pillay, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
The report indicates that Israel has damaged or destroyed more than 90% of school and university buildings in Gaza and destroys more than half of all religious and cultural sites in the territory.
“Although the destruction of cultural goods, including educational facilities, has not been in itself a genocidal act, evidence of such conduct can nevertheless deduce the genocidal intention to destroy a protected group,” said the report.
“The targeting by Israel of educational, cultural and religious life of the Palestinian people harm the current generations and generations to come, hampering their right to self -determination,” continued Pillay.
While the report focused on the impact on Gaza, the Commission also reported important consequences for the Palestinian education system in West West Wedding and Jerusalem due to accelerated Israeli military activity, the harassment of students and settlers’ attacks.
“The children of Gaza lost their childhood. Without education available, they are obliged to worry about survival in the midst of attacks, uncertainty, famine and sub-human living conditions, “said Pillay.
“What is particularly worrying is the widespread nature of targeting educational installations, which has spread far beyond Gaza, which has an impact on all Palestinian children.”
The report will be officially presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 17.
Israel withdrew from the Council in February after having accumulated it from a bias.
The previous report of the Gaza Commission, published in March, accused Israel of having committed “genocidal acts” by destroying reproductive health establishments.
This prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accuse the Council of being “an anti -Semitic, corrupt, supporting and non -relevant” body “.
