stated<\/a> that the panel\u2019s report is a \u201cpropaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe COI is a fundamentally flawed mechanism whose very purpose is to single out and vilify Israel rather than seek the truth,\u201d it stated. \u201cUsing the demagoguery of modern blood libels to defame Israel, the COI actively conceals clear evidence of terrorist atrocities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The commission \u201ccompletely erases Israeli children, who were brutally murdered, kidnapped and targeted by Hamas, while ignoring Hamas\u2019s cynical use of Palestinian children as human shields and pawns of war,\u201d the ministry stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe COI also lacks any credible verification mechanism for its claims,\u201d it said. \u201cIsrael utterly rejects this latest libelous sham, as well as all of the COI\u2019s other defamatory reports.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, stated that \u201cthis is not an investigative report.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a political blood libel disguised as a U.N. document,\u201d he said. \u201cThis commission reaches its conclusions before examining the facts and repeatedly publishes reports that serve one purpose only: to vilify Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of addressing Hamas\u2019s crimes, the Oct. 7 massacre, the hostages and Hamas\u2019s cynical use of children and civilians as human shields, the commission has once again chosen to place Israel in the dock,\u201d Danon stated.<\/p>\n
According to Rovner, the commission accuses Israel \u201cof the gravest crimes imaginable,\u201d including \u201cintentionally killing children, genocide and extermination.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the panel reached those conclusions largely through \u201csecond-hand testimony and inference,\u201d without access to the battlefield information needed to determine who was responsible for particular deaths, the circumstances surrounding them or whether militants were present, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe result is a report that repeatedly presents speculation as fact,\u201d she told JNS. \u201cA report that ignores key evidence and treats speculation as fact does not merely distort public debate. It risks distorting the administration of international justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the commission, stated in connection with the report that the \u201cevidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
The 94-page report, the commission\u2019s 17th since its creation in May 2021, accuses Israel of intentionally killing, injuring and maiming Palestinian children in Gaza and of targeting schools, hospitals, displacement camps and other civilian sites where children were sheltering.<\/p>\n
Some 30% of those killed in the Gaza war were children, according to the report, which points in part to the Israeli military\u2019s use of powerful explosives and other wide-impact weapons in crowded residential areas, despite what it describes as mounting child casualties, as evidence that the attacks were deliberate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
The commission, whose full name is the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, said in September that Israel had committed \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cwar crimes\u201d in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(June 23, 2026 \/ JNS) A new United Nations report, which accuses the Jewish state of targeting Palestinian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-508054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508054","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=508054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}