Israel reacted angrily to a new United Nations report alleging the Jewish state had engaged in the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children. The report, released by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and Israel, claimed that Israeli authorities and security forces committed genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Israeli Response
Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, called the report a ‘political blood libel disguised as a U.N. document.’ He stated that the commission reaches its conclusions before examining the facts and repeatedly publishes reports that serve one purpose only: to vilify Israel. Danon added that Israel will continue to defend its citizens and fight terrorism, regardless of how many false reports are published by fringe actors within U.N. institutions.
Other experts, including Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Salo Aizenberg, director of media watchdog group HonestReporting, also criticized the report, stating that it contains no evidence to support the claims against Israel and is filled with inconsistencies in methodology.
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