💥 UN Commissioner Declares Israel Has Committed 4 Types of Genocide in Gaza and Left It Uninhabitable

No genocide has ever been as meticulously documented and shown to the entire world - yet still denied by so many world powers

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They said the word

In a moment that history will circle in red, Navi Pillay, chair of the UN’s independent Commission of Inquiry, stood before the General Assembly and said the plain thing: Israel has committed “four genocidal acts” in Gaza—with specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza “as such.” She added that Israel’s President, Prime Minister, and former Defense Minister have “incited the commission of genocide.”

For two years we’ve watched Gaza made “nearly uninhabitable”; we’ve heard senior officials endorse deportation, settlements, annexation. Yesterday the UN stopped tiptoeing around the vocabulary. It called the crime by its name.

This is not a new argument. It is a new line in the record. Let me explain…

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From Gaza to the West Bank: the same architecture

The Commission did not silo this to Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, it found policies since October 2023—paired with explicit and implicit support for violent settlers—show intent to forcibly transfer Palestinians, expand Israeli Jewish civilian presence, and annex the majority of the territory to block any Palestinian self-determination. That is not security; it is territorial redesign by force.

Gaza is the template. The West Bank is the roll-out.

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Your screen already knows this is true

You’ve seen what they described. You saw Jabalia—a city of 120,000—reduced to lunar gray. Not a neighborhood. A city. If Hartford or Ann Arbor or Lafayette or Billings vanished like that, we would not call it “a strike.” We would call it a national annihilation event.

You saw two Palestinian elders—Haj Nadi Marouf and Haj Ali Marouf—stripped and humiliated amid the ruins of Beit Lahiya. Their family says soldiers used them as human shields, denied them food and water for three days, and then murdered them. That is not security. That is a cluster of war crimes.

The UN’s legal analysis now mirrors what our eyes already recognized: this is not “excess.” This is policy.

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What the Genocide Convention means (so we stop arguing about the dictionary)

When the UN says “four genocidal acts,” it is applying Article II of the Convention. In Gaza, the Commission says Israel committed these four:

• Killing members of the group.

• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.

• Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part.

• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

The fifth act in the treaty—forcibly transferring children—is the one not listed among the four for Gaza. The legal threshold for genocide is acts + intent. The Commission says both are present.

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The duty that follows the word

Saying “genocide” without acting is performance.

The Commission chair was explicit: support the International Criminal Court and use universal jurisdiction—that means any state can prosecute suspects, including dual nationals, when the world’s courts are stalled. If the Security Council is paralyzed, the General Assembly must move under “Uniting for Peace.” Sanctions are not radical. Arms embargoes are not radical. They are the floor of law.

This is also the moment for domestic clarity: American and European officials who keep signing export licenses and sending spare parts are not neutral actors. They are material contributors to a campaign the UN has just called genocide.

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“Ceasefire” can’t unbomb the bones

Yes, a fragile ceasefire and hostages exchanges bring real human relief. But as Pillay put it, they do not undo the devastation. You cannot unstarve a child who already died. You cannot unbury a family under a home that doesn’t exist. You cannot restore a city by pretending it was a battle and not a bulldozer made of bombs.

The task ahead is twofold: stop the crime and name the criminals.

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Objection & Answer (so no one hides behind clichés)

“Genocide is a political word.”
No. It is a legal term of art with elements. The Commission’s findings rest on the Genocide Convention, not a hashtag.

“Intent is impossible to prove.”
Intent is proven every day in court—by patterns, policies, public statements, foreseeable consequences. When officials speak of deportation, annexation, no civilians, flattening, the intent is not mysterious.

“But Hamas—”
War crimes, if that’s what you think Hamas committed, by one party do not license genocide by another. That is the entire point of law: to restrain retaliation and protect civilians precisely when it is hardest.

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What justice looks like in practice

Open the strike logs and target folders. Preserve satellite chronologies. Identify commanders who authorized area bombardment. Secure hospital records and morgue registers. Take sworn testimony from the survivors of Jabalia, from the families of Haj Nadi and Haj Ali, from every mother who watched a child starve behind an aid truck turned around at a checkpoint. Then prosecute—in The Hague if possible, under universal jurisdiction if necessary.

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Shaun

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