(A7) A new report by the United Nations claims that Israel committed “genocidal acts” during the war in Gaza, including intentional harm to women’s health facilities and the weaponization of sexual violence.

The report claims that Israel committed sexual violence against Gazans, including making them undress in public and carrying out sexual assault as part of the procedures meant to punish Palestinian Arabs for the October 7th Massacre.

It also claims that there was a surge in maternity deaths due to restricted access to medical supplies, amounting “to the crime against humanity of extermination.”

“Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention,” the report added.

Israel’s permanent mission to the UN in Geneva described allegations in the report as unfounded, biased, and lacking credibility.

“The IDF has concrete directives and policies which unequivocally prohibit such misconduct”, the permanent mission to the UN in Geneva responded in a statement, adding that its review processes are in line with international standards.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon stated: “This is another vile and distorted document from the UN, which continues to serve as a propaganda mouthpiece for terrorist organizations. While Israel is fighting against the savages who slaughtered, raped, and murdered thousands of innocent people on October 7th, the UN chooses to stand by the murderers again and again and spread despicable blood libels against the only democratic state in the Middle East.”

“This report is not even worth the paper it was printed on. Anyone who supported this false publication is complicit in whitewashing Hamas’ war crimes and trampling on the truth. While Israel goes above and beyond to avoid harming innocent people, terrorists are barricading themselves in hospitals, using women and children as human shields, and abusing their own population. But the UN? The UN is busy looking for ways to blame Israel instead of facing reality. History will judge you,” Danon stated.

Israeli Foreign Minister Spokesman Oren Marmorstein wrote: “In regard to the blood libel published by the ‘Commission of Inquiry’: It is one of the worst cases of blood libel the world has ever seen (and the world has seen many). It accuses the victims of the crimes committed against them. Hamas is the organization that has committed horrendous sexual crimes against Israelis. It is indeed a sick document that only an antisemitic organization such as the UN could produce.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement strongly condemning the UN Human Rights Council: “The anti-Israel circus known as the UN ‘Human Rights Council’ has long been revealed as an antisemitic, rotten and irrelevant organization that supports terrorism. For good reason, Israel decided to quit it approximately one month ago.

“Instead of focusing on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes that were perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre carried out against the Jewish People since the Holocaust, the UN has again chosen to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including baseless accusations of sexual violence.

“This is not a human rights council; it is a blood rights council.”

Minister of Culture and Sport Miki Zohar commented on the report: “Endless hypocrisy by the UN which did not only not condemn the rape, murder, and abduction of women, men, and children on October 7th, but accuses Israel of war crimes that never were.”

He added: “Tonight we will read the Book of Esther, and we’ll remember: attempts to destroy and harass the people of Israel always failed, and relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from somewhere else.”

National Unity Party Chairman MK Benny Gantz commented: “This is a moral low and blindness that will not be erased. Not only did those who wrote the report and signed it lie, but they also harm global security and give support to terrorism, antisemitism, and blood libels.”

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennet stated: “The UN has become Hamas’s useful idiot. The worst regimes in history accused their enemies of what they themselves did. Now history is repeating itself and the UN is adopting this evil method. Hamas is the one that attacked, raped, and murdered Israelis. It was all documented. Hamas is the one that used sexual violence against hostages. The UN has turned justice into evil, good into bad. Fair nations must renounce the UN.”