UN Inquiry Says Both Israel and Hamas Committed War Crimes
The Facts
The UN released a report on Wednesday detailing war crimes commited by Israel and Hamas. The inquiry found that Israeli forces are guilty of forced starvation, intentionally targeting civilians, forced displacement, sexual violence, torture, and arbitrary detention.
The report continued that Israeli forces had conducted a campaign of "extermination," adding that Israeli leaders had made statements reflecting "the policy of inflicting widespread destruction and killing large numbers of civilians."
The Spin
Israel rigorously follows the laws of war and goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties. All this report demonstrates is that the UN is deeply biased against Israel and seeks to create a nauseating equivalence between Israeli self-defense and Hamas' terrorism.
Israel can no longer play the victim card as the evidence mounts that it is Israeli forces committing the most serious crimes. The propaganda offensive accusing Hamas of systematic rape has been thoroughly debunked, and, as it turns out, it is Israel that is committing sexualized torture against Palestinians in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
