After two years of relentless war and bloodshed, the United Nations has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

‘It is clear that there is an intent to destroy Palestinians’, the UN report claims.

Israel is, unsurprisingly, rejecting the report’s findings. A spokesperson has called for the UN Commission of Inquiry to be abolished, arguing the case of antisemitism (again), the same argument they used last year when the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu.

At the time, the then US President Joe Biden called the warrant “outrageous,” and his successor, Donald Trump, issued an executive order to introduce sanctions against personnel from the ICC, while inviting Netanyahu to the White House.

Based on the collective response last year, it is hard to believe that either Israel or the US will be any more accepting of this year’s report, especially when Israel has long claimed that the UN is ‘biased against it.’ This is despite the commission having been studying the conduct of Israel since the Hamas attacks back in October 2023. Only after reviewing two years’ worth of evidence have they concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts laid out in the Genocide Convention.

The UN is not out to get Israel; they are out to protect the world…

The report alleges that Israel has been forcing Palestinians to live in inhumane conditions, causing serious bodily and mental harm, including through torture, and imposing measures intended to prevent births*.

*The latter point is linked to an attack on the Al-Basma IVF clinic in December 2023, which the commission claims destroyed around 4,000 embryos and a further 1,000 sperm samples.

The report also alleges that Israeli military personnel have carried out sexual and gender-based violence, including “rape and sexualised torture”, as part of “a pattern of collective punishment”, and accuses Israeli forces of deliberately targeting some children “with the intention to kill them”.

More than 10% of Gaza’s population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says, the majority of whom are women, children, and elderly people. Not the most dangerous, but the most vulnerable…

There is so much evidence that Israel is committing genocide, even in GHF sites, aid distribution sites, supposedly, that were set up by Israel with American help earlier this year.

Journalists have found that aid distributions by the GHF are associated with a significant rise in deaths, something which UN experts describe as a ‘disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited.’

You don’t need me to tell you how wrong what is happening in the Middle East is, but what I will tell you is that today has been the most haunting day of the war yet.

Instead of the UN’s declaration of genocide stopping Israel, it has done quite the opposite.

Following the release of the UN’s report, Israel’s military has expanded its ground offensive, killing at least 68 people across Gaza since dawn. This brings the current death toll to 64,718.

Now that the UN has named this for what it is, genocide, no longer can anyone condone Israel’s actions, least of all our government.

We need to stop arming Israel.

Since December 2024, the Royal Air Force has conducted at least 518 surveillance flights around Gaza.

The flights, carried out from Cyprus, have been shrouded in secrecy, raising concerns about whether British intelligence has played a role in military operations that have resulted in mass civilian casualties in Gaza.

While the Ministry of Defence claims these flights are solely for locating Israeli hostages held by Hamas, evidence suggests otherwise.

It has been found that the RAF conducted 24 flights in the two weeks leading up to and including the day of Israel’s deadly attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp on 8 June 2024, which reportedly killed 274 Palestinians and injured over 700.

The British and US governments need to stop playing their part in genocide.

What happened on October 7^th, 2023, was horrific, the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history. I have seen the videos from the day, I forced myself to watch them to see both sides, but to continue to punish innocent Palestinians two years on for the actions of a group that they are in no way affiliated with makes no sense.

What Israel is inflicting upon Gaza is genocide, pure and simple, no excuses. And we and our governments owe it to the future to be on the right side of history.

Free Palestine.