Israel slams UN report as 'political blood libel' for alleging deliberate targeting of Palestinian children

Israel reacted angrily implicit a caller United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry study alleging the Jewish authorities had engaged successful the "deliberate targeting of Palestinian children."

Prior reports from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry connected the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and Israel garnered accusations of antisemitism and incitement to violence.

The latest report, released Wednesday, said that, "based connected the grounds reviewed, and accordant with its erstwhile reports, the Commission finds connected tenable grounds that the Israeli authorities and the Israeli information forces person continued to perpetrate the transgression of genocide, crimes against humanity and warfare crimes successful the Gaza Strip and warfare crimes successful the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."

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A pistillate kneels by a memorial tract successful Kibbutz Kfar Aza, confederate Israel, arsenic the assemblage commemorates members killed, taken hostage, oregon who died successful captivity pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)

Israel's Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, told Fox News Digital that "this is not an investigative report. It is simply a governmental humor libel disguised arsenic a U.N. document. This committee reaches its conclusions earlier examining the facts and repeatedly publishes reports that service 1 intent only: to vilify Israel. Instead of addressing Hamas' crimes, the October 7 massacre, the hostages, and Hamas' cynical usage of children and civilians arsenic quality shields, the committee has erstwhile again chosen to spot Israel successful the dock."

Danon added that "Israel volition proceed to support its citizens and combat terrorism, careless of however galore mendacious reports are published by fringe actors wrong U.N. institutions."

Representatives from the COI and Human Rights Council did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for remark connected the concerns addressed astir the report.

Asked for a absorption from U.N. main Antonio Guterres to the report, his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told Fox News Digital "it’s not his study to remark on."

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A bloodied handprint stains a partition wrong a location successful the Nir Oz kibbutz adjacent the Gaza borderline aft a Hamas onslaught days earlier. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission told reporters during a property briefing that, "The grounds shows that Palestinian children person been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli information forces." He said "Even aft the October 2025 ceasefire, children proceed to beryllium killed and earnestly injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the extortion owed to Palestinian children nether planetary law."

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Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital that the COI’s "sham ‘inquiry’ makes the wholly unjustified assertion of ineligible authority, portion astatine the aforesaid clip systematically violating each conceivable ineligible regularisation of fairness, impartiality, and owed process. Since its instauration successful 2021, each telephone for submissions, each consultation and each proceeding held, has been contrived to instrumentality earnestly the allegations of lone 1 broadside – trashing virtually millions of information points some humanities and existent to the contrary."

She said, "the archetypal COI study focused connected children…fails to adjacent notation the sickening murders of 9-month-old Kfir Bibas and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas." She says that "also ignored successful the COI study are the hundreds of thousands of Israeli children traumatized by October 7th, by the consequent wide displacement, and by the excruciating longing for parents absent portion defending their state against an inhumane foe."

Photos of the Bibas household and Oded Lifshitz, 84, who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught and aboriginal killed, are displayed adjacent to candles successful the eating country successful Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, connected Feb. 25, 2025, the time of Lifshitz's ceremonial aft their bodies were returned nether a ceasefire agreement. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

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Bayefsky complained that though the existent COI study "was produced weeks ago," the COI members "deliberately withheld" the study erstwhile appearing to sermon it earlier the Human Rights Council past week. "They didn’t people it until June 23, minutes anterior to holding a stage-managed property league designed to debar accountability for their wild, unverified accusations," she claimed.

Another subordinate of the committee told reporters successful Geneva that, "There tin beryllium nary uncertainty successful anyone who reads today’s study that each planetary ineligible norm has been violated by the actions of the Israeli authorities towards Palestinian children and they request to beryllium held accountable."

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council gathering astatine the United Nations office successful New York connected April 18, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Jonathan Conricus, elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and erstwhile Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, told Fox News Digital that the latest study contains "no grounds to enactment immoderate of the claims against Israel" and is filled with "inconsistencies successful methodology."

He said the study represents "an escalation, and it marks possibly the astir terrible effort by the U.N. ecosystem to delegitimize Israel."

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Salo Aizenberg, manager of media watchdog radical HonestReporting, who has researched and debunked galore of the claims made by those claiming genocide successful Gaza, told Fox News Digital that the COI’s "report is built connected a fictional battlefield wherever Hamas and [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] bash not exist, and wherever hospitals are treated arsenic purely civilian spaces contempt extended grounds of their subject usage and infiltration by Hamas operatives. It past accuses Israel of deliberately targeting children without producing a azygous incidental supported by grounds of intent."

Conricus said the study erases "Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from the battlefield to make the mendacious benignant of cognition that Israel was operating retired of wanton aggression successful a vacuum without determination ever being a request for Israeli operations and this is simply a reoccurring theme." He besides noted that this study and others "use the statements of aesculapian professionals arsenic evidence, adjacent erstwhile it's mode beyond their aesculapian expertise, specifically erstwhile it comes to however wounds were inflicted."