{"id":143645,"date":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/143645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","slug":"israels-gaza-home-demolitions-amount-to-genocide-un-rapporteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/143645\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Gaza home demolitions amount to &#8216;genocide&#8217;: UN rapporteur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing said Israel\u2019s continued destruction of housing in Gaza is \u201cpart of an act of genocide\u201d and the devastation has continued during the ceasefire that was reached in early October.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cActually, Israel has continued to kill individuals and to demolish homes and then also to deny any aid to come in insufficient quantities,&#8221; Balakrishnan Rajagopal told Anadolu in an interview.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The ceasefire has not been fully implemented, and currently there is no mechanism to ensure compliance or enforce consequences, he said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Rajagopal said the situation in Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 69,000 people since October 2023 and reduced large parts of the territory to rubble, is \u201cstill not that different from the time before the signing of the ceasefire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">He stressed that while large-scale aerial bombings have stopped, other forms of destruction, killings, and denial of aid continue, and the territory remains under occupation.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Israel justifies its attacks on homes by claiming they are \u201cmilitary objectives,\u201d Rajagopal said, noting that in nearly all cases, it has provided no evidence, leading to widespread and arbitrary destruction of housing.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Rajagopal also warned that Israeli actions amount to a \u201cgrave violation of the laws of war\u201d, a \u201ccrime against humanity\u201d, and, given the systematic nature of the attacks, form part of an ongoing \u201cact of genocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-preview=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/9af864e5c0ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"relative flex w-full px-4 py-3 flex-col items-start gap-6 rounded bg-[#F1F1F1] border-l-0 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out box-border mb-4 hover:bg-[#F9F9F9] hover:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] focus:bg-[#F9F9F9] focus:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] before:content-[&quot;&quot;] before:absolute before:left-0 before:top-0 before:bottom-0 before:w-[3px] before:rounded-l-md before:bg-[#01ABD9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flex justify-center items-center rounded-md !w-20 !h-20 aspect-square flex-shrink-0 sm:rounded md:rounded-md lg:!w-[84px] lg:!h-[84px] lg:rounded xl:rounded-md\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f9299ef99f6ac449760aa6a64dffd08aae42b472eee731a332c13a35a8192e39.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8216;Domicide&#8217; <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Rajagopal said most Israeli home demolitions occur after areas are fully controlled, not during active fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing said Israel\u2019s continued destruction of housing in Gaza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-143645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}