UN panel accuses Israel of ‘extermination’ in West Bank, genocide in Gaza

Report finds extermination, torture and rape in the West Bank and says genocide in Gaza is continuing despite a ceasefire.

Israeli soldiers on patrol in Hebron on Saturday [AFP]

A United Nations commission of inquiry has accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank, including extermination, torture and rape, while also continuing “to commit genocide in Gaza” despite a ceasefire brokered by the United States.

The report, published on Monday by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, examined killings and physical and mental harm inflicted by state actors from October 7, 2023, through September of this year.

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The commission found that the situation in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, had “deteriorated gravely” since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

It said Israeli military operations , reinforced by sustained violence by settlers, amounted to a “widespread and systematic attack” on civilians, and that Israeli authorities “intended to collectively punish” residents of the occupied West Bank for the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

“The Israeli authorities and forces have committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the West Bank, as well as persecution based on intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, race and ethnicity at its core,” the report said.

The commission also found a sharp rise in deaths from air strikes in the territory.

Six Palestinians were killed in air attacks in the occupied West Bank from 2008 to October 6, 2023, it said, compared with 254 from October 7, 2023, to September 30, 2026.

“The intentional killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians and destruction of homes in the West Bank combined with Israel’s persistent denial of responsibility form part of a broader strategy to exterminate and displace Palestinians and impose conditions of life that are unlivable,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission’s chair.

“Meanwhile, Israel’s expansion of territorial control in Gaza continues to result in the killing and harming of Palestinian civilians who approach or cross” the so-called Yellow Line that demarcates Israeli-controlled areas in the enclave, he said.

Israel’s mission in Geneva called the report part of the commission’s “misinformation campaign to demonize the State of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal”.

“The international community must reject these distortions, repudiate the commission’s findings and demand its immediate dissolution,” the mission said in a statement.

The commission, which does not speak for the UN as a whole, first concluded in September 2025 that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza during the war that followed the October 7 attacks. Israel has flatly rejected the UN commission’s finding.

In its new report, the commission said Israeli forces had continued to commit “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza despite the ceasefire brokered by the US last October, with attacks intended to “destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part”.

At least five Palestinians, including a seven-year-old girl, were killed in Israeli air attacks across Gaza on Monday, according to medical officials there. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 74,500 people have been killed in the genocidal war, which has displaced nearly all of the territory’s population.

The report also examined abuses by Palestinian security forces. It found that the Palestinian Authority had targeted people who voiced dissent, and that the killing and wounding of journalists and human rights defenders had steadily narrowed space for civil society.

The three-member commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021.

Navi Pillay, a former South African High Court judge who led it until last November, won the Nobel Peace Prize this month.

The report was released as Israeli forces carried out a crackdown in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron after a shooting near the city last week. Israel imposed a lockdown on Hebron on Friday, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to extend it across the entire West Bank.

Later on Monday, Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, condemned the Hebron operation. He said threats to empty and erase neighbourhoods raised “serious concerns of ethnic cleansing”.

According to Turk, the lockdown had already forcibly displaced more than 2,000 Palestinians, led to the demolition of homes and prevented residents from moving freely.

“The sweeping steps taken raise grave concerns of unnecessary and disproportionate use of force – which must end,” he said.

“The Israeli lockdown is confining many to their homes and their immediate neighbourhoods. Declarations by senior Israeli government officials indicate that the measures implemented are punitive in nature and designed to instil fear. This is unacceptable,” Turk added.

Some Israeli ministers have previously called for the occupied West Bank and Gaza to be ethnically cleansed.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Ynet News last month that Israel should “go to war” in the occupied territory and repeat what it “did in Gaza”. He added that Israeli forces had “cleared out” Palestinian refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.

Turk insisted that people displaced under the clampdown must be allowed to return home and that “Israel must ensure compensation and reparation for unlawful evictions and demolitions”.

“Collective punishment is a grave violation of international law,” he said.

报告发现西岸存在种族灭绝、酷刑和强奸，并称尽管达成了停火协议，加沙的种族灭绝仍在继续。

周六，以色列士兵在希伯伦巡逻 [法新社]

联合国调查委员会指控以色列在被占领的西岸犯下反人类罪行，包括灭绝、酷刑和强奸，同时尽管美国斡旋达成停火协议，以色列仍在加沙继续“实施种族灭绝”。

联合国巴勒斯坦被占领土问题独立国际调查委员会周一发布的这份报告，调查了从 2023 年 10 月 7 日至今年 9 月期间，国家行为者造成的杀戮以及身心伤害。

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委员会发现，自 2023 年 10 月 7 日哈马斯领导的袭击以色列南部以来，以色列自 1967 年以来占领的西岸局势“严重恶化”。

声明称，以色列的军事行动，加上定居者持续不断的暴力行为，构成了对平民的“广泛而有系统的攻击”，以色列当局“意图集体惩罚”被占领的西岸居民，以报复哈马斯领导的对以色列的袭击。

报告称：“以色列当局和军队在西岸犯下了灭绝、酷刑、强奸和其他形式的性暴力等反人类罪行，并基于交叉歧视理由进行迫害，其核心是国籍、种族和民族。”

委员会还发现，该地区空袭造成的死亡人数急剧上升。

报告称，从 2008 年到 2023 年 10 月 6 日，在被占领的约旦河西岸地区，有 6 名巴勒斯坦人在空袭中丧生；而从 2023 年 10 月 7 日到 2026 年 9 月 30 日，则有 254 名巴勒斯坦人在空袭中丧生。

委员会主席斯里尼瓦桑·穆拉利达尔表示：“以色列蓄意杀害和伤害巴勒斯坦平民，摧毁西岸的房屋，再加上以色列一再否认对此负有责任，这构成了一项更广泛的战略的一部分，旨在消灭和驱逐巴勒斯坦人，并强加给他们无法生存的生活条件。”

他说：“与此同时，以色列在加沙不断扩大领土控制，导致靠近或越过所谓‘黄线’（该线划定了以色列在加沙地带控制的区域）的巴勒斯坦平民遭到杀害和伤害。”

以色列驻日内瓦代表团称该报告是委员会“妖魔化以色列国并将其存在本身描绘成犯罪行为的虚假信息宣传活动”的一部分。

“国际社会必须驳斥这些歪曲事实的说法，否定委员会的调查结果，并要求立即解散该委员会，”该特派团在一份声明中表示。

该委员会并不代表联合国整体立场，它于2025年9月首次得出结论，认为以色列在10月7日袭击事件后的战争中对加沙犯下了种族灭绝罪。以色列断然拒绝接受联合国委员会的调查结果。

该委员会在其最新报告中表示，尽管去年10月在美国斡旋下达成了停火协议，但以色列军队仍继续在加沙对巴勒斯坦人实施“种族灭绝行为”，其袭击目的是“全部或部分地摧毁巴勒斯坦人民”。

据加沙医疗官员称，周一以色列对加沙地带发动的空袭造成至少五名巴勒斯坦人死亡，其中包括一名七岁女童。加沙卫生部表示，这场种族灭绝战争已造成至少74500人死亡，并导致该地区几乎所有居民流离失所。

该报告还调查了巴勒斯坦安全部队的暴行。报告发现，巴勒斯坦权力机构针对表达异议的人士，杀害和伤害记者及人权捍卫者的行为不断压缩公民社会的空间。

该三人委员会由联合国人权理事会于 2021 年设立。

曾任南非高等法院法官并领导该组织直至去年 11 月的纳维·皮莱 (Navi Pillay) 本月荣获诺贝尔和平奖。

这份报告发布之际，以色列军队在被占领的约旦河西岸城市希伯伦展开镇压行动。此前，该市附近上周发生枪击事件。以色列于周五对希伯伦实施封锁，总理内塔尼亚胡宣布计划将封锁范围扩大到整个约旦河西岸地区。

周一晚些时候，联合国人权事务高级专员沃尔克·图尔克谴责了希伯伦的军事行动。他表示，威胁要清空和抹去居民区的做法引发了“对种族清洗的严重担忧”。

据图尔克称，封锁已经迫使 2000 多名巴勒斯坦人流离失所，导致房屋被拆毁，并阻止居民自由行动。

他说：“这些全面措施引发了人们对不必要和过度使用武力的严重担忧——这种情况必须停止。”

“以色列的封锁措施将许多人限制在家中和附近的街区内。以色列高级政府官员的声明表明，这些措施具有惩罚性质，旨在制造恐慌。这是不可接受的，”特克补充道。

一些以色列部长此前曾呼吁对被占领的西岸和加沙地带进行种族清洗。

财政部长贝扎莱尔·斯莫特里奇上个月告诉Ynet新闻网，以色列应该在被占领土上“开战”，重演其在加沙“所做的事”。他还补充说，以色列军队已经“清空”了被占领的西岸地区的巴勒斯坦难民营。

特克坚持认为，在镇压行动中流离失所的人们必须被允许返回家园，并且“以色列必须确保对非法驱逐和拆迁行为进行赔偿和补偿”。

他说：“集体惩罚严重违反了国际法。”