"FACTUAL FINDINGS"
I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its war on Gaza's hospitals.”
The document was a Report of Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. It is the third such report to the UN General Assembly by this group and covers the period from October 7th, 2023 to August of 2024. The report states at the outset that it is based largely upon responses to three requests for information: two from the State of Palestine and one from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Reading the report, I did not find anything like what I was expecting. The language and framing of the report of course, is wildly biassed in favour of Hamas, because that's the leaning of most UN organizations and, obviously, those who replied to their requests for information. As such, it could only be so. What was surprising was that the report, citing numbers from Hamas, the Gaza Ministry of Health, and various branches of administration in Gaza, reads to me as particularly damning of the authorities in Gaza along with the international media and so much of their prior reporting. And, to be clear, I don’t get the impression that was their intent.
