Egypt Daily News – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the UN investigation released today, which confirmed that Israel committed acts of “genocide” in Gaza through the systematic destruction of reproductive healthcare facilities.
In a post on his official page on the “X” platform on Thursday, Netanyahu described the UN Human Rights Council as an “anti-Israel circus.”
He claimed that the council is an “anti-Semitic, corrupt, and terror-supporting body,” stating that his country’s decision to withdraw from it about a month ago “was not random,” as he put it.
Netanyahu further alleged that the United Nations had once again chosen to accuse Israel of “false and baseless allegations of sexual violence” instead of focusing on crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Hamas on October 7.
He concluded his post by saying: “This is not the Human Rights Council; this is the Blood Rights Council,” according to his claim.
Earlier, a special UN committee’s investigation, released on Thursday, confirmed that Israel committed acts of “genocide” in Gaza by systematically destroying reproductive healthcare facilities.
The UN investigative committee concluded that the occupation authorities “partially destroyed the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of the reproductive health sector, which amounts to two categories of genocide acts.”
The UN Convention on the Prevention of Genocide defines the crime as any acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, or religious group.
The investigation found that Israel was involved in at least two of the five acts that the UN convention defines as genocide.
It noted that Israel was “deliberately inflicting living conditions on the group (i.e., Palestinians) calculated to bring about its physical destruction” and “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”
Committee chair Navi Pillay stated that “these violations have not only caused severe direct physical and psychological harm to women and girls but have also led to long-term, irreparable consequences for the mental and reproductive health and fertility opportunities of Palestinians as a group.”
The investigation found that Israel carried out systematic strikes targeting Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure, including hospitals and clinics providing reproductive care.
It explained that this led to the near-total destruction of the health sector’s ability to care for pregnant women and newborns.
The report confirmed that “strict restrictions on essential medical supplies and medications worsened the deterioration of reproductive health for women and girls in Gaza, directly contributing to increased maternal and new born mortality rates.”
