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

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

Prior reports from nan Independent International Commission of Inquiry connected nan 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 nan grounds reviewed, and accordant pinch its erstwhile reports, nan Commission finds connected reasonable grounds that nan Israeli authorities and nan Israeli information forces person continued to perpetrate nan crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and warfare crimes successful nan Gaza Strip and warfare crimes successful nan West Bank, including East Jerusalem."

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

Israel's Ambassador to nan 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 nan facts and many times publishes reports that service 1 intent only: to vilify Israel. Instead of addressing Hamas' crimes, nan October 7 massacre, nan hostages, and Hamas' cynical usage of children and civilians arsenic quality shields, nan committee has erstwhile again chosen to spot Israel successful nan dock."

Danon added that "Israel will proceed to take sides its citizens and conflict terrorism, sloppy of really galore mendacious reports are published by fringe actors wrong U.N. institutions."

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

Asked for a guidance from U.N. main Antonio Guterres to nan 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 wall wrong a location successful nan Nir Oz kibbutz adjacent nan Gaza separator aft a Hamas onslaught days earlier. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

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

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

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

Photos of nan Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz, 84, who were kidnapped during nan Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught and later killed, are displayed adjacent to candles successful nan eating room successful Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, connected Feb. 25, 2025, nan 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 nan existent COI study "was produced weeks ago," nan COI members "deliberately withheld" nan study erstwhile appearing to talk it earlier nan Human Rights Council past week. "They didn’t people it until June 23, minutes anterior to holding a stage-managed property convention designed to debar accountability for their wild, unverified accusations," she claimed.

Another personnel of nan committee told reporters successful Geneva that, "There tin beryllium nary uncertainty successful anyone who sounds today’s study that each world ineligible norm has been violated by nan actions of nan 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 nan United Nations office successful New York connected April 18, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

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

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

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Salo Aizenberg, head of media watchdog group HonestReporting, who has researched and debunked galore of nan claims made by those claiming genocide successful Gaza, told Fox News Digital that nan COI’s "report is built connected a fictional battlefield wherever Hamas and [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] do 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 incident supported by grounds of intent."

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