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UN inquiry accuses Israel of crime of ‘extermination’ in Gaza

Palestinians react in the aftermath of an Israeli strike at Remal clinic, which had been sheltering displaced people, in Gaza City [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

United Nations investigators have accused Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel during its war on the besieged enclave.

A statement by ex-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay released on Thursday in advance of a full report accused Israel of “committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities” in its assault on Gaza, which it launched after the Palestinian armed group Hamas led a deadly cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

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