{"id":11523,"date":"2026-10-26T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:19:26","slug":"israel-committing-crimes-against-humanity-in-occupied-west-bank-un-occupied-west-bank-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"Israel committing crimes against humanity in occupied West Bank: UN | Occupied West Bank News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel has committed crimes against humanity including \u201cextermination\u201d in the occupied West Bank, United Nations-mandated investigators have reported.<\/p>\n

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that the Israeli government and its forces are also responsible for other war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Palestinian territory, including torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence.<\/p>\n

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The release of the report came as Israeli forces carried out a clampdown<\/a>, including expulsions and demolitions, on Hebron following a gun attack last week.<\/p>\n

The commission, which does not speak for the UN itself, first determined in a September 2025 report that Israel had committed \u201cgenocide\u201d in its war on Gaza following Hamas\u2019s deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel \u2013 a finding Israel flatly rejects.<\/p>\n

In its new report, issued the day before Israel\u2019s general election<\/a>, the commission found that in the West Bank \u2013 which Israel has occupied since 1967 \u2013 Israeli military operations<\/a>, reinforced by sustained settler violence, constitute a \u201cwidespread and systematic attack\u201d against civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Israeli authorities and forces have committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the West Bank, as well as persecution based on intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, race and ethnicity at its core,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s mission in Geneva said the report was part of the inquiry\u2019s \u201cmisinformation campaign to demonise the State of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe international community must reject these distortions, repudiate the commission\u2019s findings and demand its immediate dissolution,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The three-member UN investigative team was established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021.<\/p>\n

Former South African High Court judge Navi Pillay, who chaired the investigation until November 2025, won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The commission\u2019s new report is focused on killings and bodily and mental harm caused by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces since October 2023.<\/p>\n

It found that the situation in the occupied West Bank has deteriorated gravely since the Palestinian armed group Hamas\u2019s attack from Gaza that month.<\/p>\n

The commission found that the Israeli authorities \u201cintended to collectively punish\u201d West Bank civilians due to the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza has displaced nearly the entire population of Gaza and killed<\/a> more than 74,500 people, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, between October 7, 2023 and October 9, 2026, 1,143 Palestinians \u2013 at least 250 of them children \u2013 were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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