The damning conclusions of the UN commission follow the Security Council resolution and the orders of the ICJ.
A report from a United Nations-backed commission of inquiry finds that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the more than eight months of war in Gaza.
It also claims that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups violated international humanitarian law during their attacks on southern Israel in October.
The findings follow thousands of interviews with victims and advanced forensic analysis of medical reports and satellite images.
But neither a UN Security Council resolution nor a binding ruling from the UN’s highest court has succeeded in stopping the Israeli offensive.
Will this damning evidence further isolate the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?
And could this make international support for Israel – led by its most powerful ally, the United States – increasingly untenable?
Presenter: Neave Barker
Guests:
Bill van Esveld – acting associate director for Israel and Palestine of the Middle East and North Africa program at Human Rights Watch
Uri Dromi – former Israeli government spokesperson and founding president of the Jerusalem Press Club
William Law – editor of Arab Digest, an online current affairs newsletter, and veteran Middle East correspondent
