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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison

Israeli attacks on Gaza maternity wards and IVF clinic ‘genocidal acts’, says UN

Nitrogen tanks where embryos were stored at al-Basma IVF centre, Gaza's largest fertility clinic, which was struck by an Israeli shell.
Nitrogen tanks where embryos were stored at al-Basma IVF centre, Gaza's largest fertility clinic, which was struck by an Israeli shell. Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters

Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to “genocidal acts”, and Israeli security forces have used sexual violence as a weapon of war to “dominate and destroy the Palestinian people”, a UN report states.

The 49-page report on sexual and gender-based violence was drawn up by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and presented to the UN human rights council.

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