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The Hindu Editorial 18th September 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Genocide <\/strong>in Gaza: On Israel and UN Commission of Inquiry finding<\/p>\n\n\n\nIndia should speak up<\/strong> against Israel\u2019s atrocities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe UN Commission of Inquiry, after a multi-year investigation, has concluded that Israeli authorities have committed <\/strong>genocide in Gaza. The finding <\/strong>is hardly <\/strong>surprising as the world\u2019s leading rights organisations, including two Israeli groups, and genocide scholars, had already accused <\/strong>Israel of committing what is one of the gravest <\/strong>crimes in international law. Yet, the finding would lend weight<\/strong> to such reports and resonate <\/strong>before the International Court of Justice, which is hearing genocide charges against Israel, and the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN Commission found \u201creasonable grounds<\/strong>\u201d to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts \u2014 killing members of a community, serious bodily and mental harm, actions aimed at destroying the group, and preventing births \u2014 have been carried out<\/strong> since the war began following Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 attack. Israel, which denies allegations <\/strong>of genocide and war crimes, has killed at least 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza in 23 months, many of them women and children. \u201cThe responsibility for these atrocity <\/strong>crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons <\/strong>who have orchestrated <\/strong>a genocidal campaign with the specific intent <\/strong>to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza,\u201d says the panel\u2019s leader, Navi Pillay.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is tragically ironic <\/strong>that Israel, a nation built by the survivors of the Shoah, is committing genocide against Palestinians. On the day the UN Commission released its report, Israel launched yet another ground offensive in the famine-stricken Gaza City. Israel\u2019s responses to reports of war crimes and mass killings have invariably <\/strong>been further escalations<\/strong>, killing and displacing even more Palestinians. The war, prolonged <\/strong>by Mr. Netanyahu for his political survival, has left a stain <\/strong>on Israel\u2019s national compass<\/strong> and deepened <\/strong>its global isolation<\/strong>. In the weeks ahead, France, the U.K. and several other countries are expected to recognise <\/strong>Palestinian sovereignty, while the European Commission has proposed <\/strong>to suspend trade concessions <\/strong>with Israel and sanction <\/strong>extremist Ministers. Yet, Israel, shielded <\/strong>by the U.S., shows little concern. The Trump administration is unlikely to turn up the heat<\/strong> on its closest ally. But Europe should start treating Israel as what it has become \u2014 a rogue state<\/strong> with genocidal intent and actions. India, once a champion<\/strong> of the Palestinian cause, has so far refrained from directly criticising the Jewish nation. But it should realise that an uncontrollable, expansionist Israel, blowing international law to smithereens<\/strong>, is not in India\u2019s national or regional interests. New Delhi should speak up against the genocide and use its leverage <\/strong>to help bring the war to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n