Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
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·September 16, 2025niyyou
The number of israel trolls who want to discredit the UN here is telling. As it was said, the first victim of war is truth.
asdefghyk
UN has previously discredited themselves. UNRWA taking part in Oct 7th. UNRWA holding hostages.
yieldcrv
Useless except if the following done on the US side:
Remove exception to AIPAC political status
Reevaluate AIPAC non profit status entirely
Replicate EO 14046 for Israel which adds the entire ruling party and head of state and spouses and military and affiliated business to the OFAC list
all of this is easy and doesn’t require Congress
but nobody is close to considering those actions with regard to Israel. Notably, other nation’s organizations do not enjoy this courtesy
(Don’t sorry guys, Hamas is already on these lists too)
clot27
f*k israel free palestine
raxxorraxor
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a_paddy
They have repeatedly hampered the entry of baby formula, a clear pattern of actions to stunt childhood development, increase childhood mortality and dissuade the population from having more children.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-hampering-entry-of... https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/01/i... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/gaza-i...
philipallstar
Why can't it come in through Egypt?
tdeck
Because Israel controls that border crossing:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/israel-takes-control...
Even before this they had effective control of all goods moving through since 2007.
raxxorraxor
I don't know anything about that but the Gazan population cannot supply itself and is dependent on Israel for basic necessities. In the background of that you cannot conclude the intend of genocide, that is ridiculous. On the contrary...
hampered the entry of baby formula => They commit genocide - If the topic were less serious, it would be good comedy...
a_paddy
Gaza is dependent on Israel's permission. Food aid is provided by the UN and other humanitarian organisations, they require Israel's permission to bring that aid into Gaza and not attack it (n.b. attempts since 2010 to deliver aid by boat, such as the MV Rachel Corrie, have been attacked in international waters and the aid never reached Gaza). Israel destroyed the power and water desalination plants, making Gaza dependent on their supply, which has since been used as a weapon.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/thirst-weapo... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w0l3q4zd0o
tdeck
Why can't Gaza supply itself? There is farmland in Gaza. The Mediterranean sea is right there - plenty of fish.
Other folks are free to Google the answers to these questions.
piva00
I suspect you haven't heard that Gaza is under a blockade for decades?
Qem
> The attack on Gaza’s largest fertility clinic destroyed thousands of embryos, sperm samples, and eggs.
More info on that particular attack: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15npnzpd08o
bjourne
> To be honest, I think this report is reaching.
In classic HN fashion, the poster knows better than law professors, UN bodies, scholarly bodies, and human rights organizations. :) They are all wrong and the poster has found a fatal flaw in their argument that completely invalidates their conclusions.
tdeck
Meeting any one of these criteria is sufficient for genocide, so your hasbara is going to have to try to knock them all out.
jenders
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omnicognate
This is politics and therefore probably off-topic for hn. It not being tech-related is irrelevant.
An argument could be made that it is an "interesting new phenomenon", but the post is most likely to result in tedious flamewars regardless and so should probably be killed.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Theodores
I would agree with you if we were in 1994 and this was about Rwanda.
Those tower blocks in Gaza that were felled on the anniversary of 9/11 were not taken down with machetes. We have got AI assisted targeting going on, with all of your favourite cloud service providers delivering value to their shareholders thanks to sales to the IDF.
The corporation that once had 'don't be evil' as their mission statement are suckling on the IDF teat along with Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco.
worldsavior
I find it funny people still find the UN legitimate. They still haven't criticised Hamas attack. The UN in Gaza is extremely corrupt because they are threatened by Hamas or they're themselves Hamas. We already saw this organization being accused of hiring terrorists.
Also, please don't provide Al-Jazeera links, they are accused countless times hiring/supporting terrorists, and their news reporters are themselves terrorists. They're funded by Qatar and Hamas and other organizations.
a_paddy
The UN secretary general condemned it the day it happened.
Anonbrit
Given the Israeli military are defacto state sponsored terrorists (see e.g. their active support of settler violence on the West Bank if you want to avoid Gaza related complaints). That means every single company in Israel is employing terrorists.
worldsavior
Sure. The Israel military rapes, kills, slaughter, and rob Gaza and West bank. The IDF is exactly like Hamas sure. /s if you didn't understand.
The Israelis live in the West Bank. The IDF is there to protect them. There is no violence whatsoever from the settlers. It's pure propaganda. There were a few rare times of some violence, but it's nothing compared to what the Palestinians do. Last week, two Palestinians crossed the border and murdered 6 people and 20+ injured on a bus shooting in Jerusalem. They even kill each other.
Each time the IDF comes into Palestinians "cities" to catch terrorists, they throw rocks on them.
a_paddy
> no violence whatsoever
The UN reported that, in the West Bank, Palestinians killed 6 Israeli settlers and 16 soldiers, while Israelis killed 719 Palestinians, from October 7, 2023, to October 7, 2024" https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-updat...
International journalists can't access Gaza, but they have witnessed first hand settler violence. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pHcC0HMiQ
niyyou
Good that you mention it, yes Israel rapes, kills, robs, as you say. https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell
NaomiLehman
IDF is 100 times worse than Hamas. What do you mean?
Editorialized. The report absolutely doesnt definitively say that "Israel is guilty of genocide"
At most they are saying that Israel MAY HAVE caused serious bodily or mental harm during a war and that war will tend to prevent births from happening.
In fact, this report cant even approach that topic of genocide because that would take a court/tribunal to conclude on.