An Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, set up by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021, states in its legal analysis published on 16 September 2025 that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention.

As usual, Israel categorically rejected these charges. Apparently living in a fantasy world of his own, Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, said it was a scandalous and fake libellous rant that had been authored by Hamas proxies.

Using evidence gathered from interviews with victims, witnesses and doctors, from verified open-source documents, from reporting by media and NGOs, and from satellite imagery analysis compiled since the war began, the three Commissioners found that Israel has committed four of the five categories of acts classed as genocide by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It gives evidence-based examples of these acts.

A report in the Guardian gives more details of the accusations.

The video below includes interviews on international law and the UN Convention with Janina Dill, Director Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, Armed Conflict; Geoffrey Nice, Human Rights Lawyer; and Olga Cherevko, OCHA Spokesperson.