Israel rejects UN commission’s findings on genocide and crimes against humanity as “political propaganda”

Israel on Monday rejected the findings of a UN-mandated investigative commission accusing it of committing crimes against humanity, including extermination, against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed the commission’s report as “political propaganda,” rejecting its conclusions concerning Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories. “This is not a human rights report, but a document of political propaganda detached from reality,” the ministry said. It accused the commission of seeking to “undermine Israel’s right to self-defence, delegitimise the Jewish state, and legitimise jihadist terrorism against its citizens.” The Israeli response followed the commission’s findings concerning violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank […]