Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war, a UN investigation found on Wednesday, saying Israel’s actions also constituted crimes against humanity due to the immense civilian losses.
The findings came from two parallel reports, one focused on the October 7 Hamas attacks and another on Israel’s military response, published by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI), which has an unusually broad mandate to gather evidence and identify perpetrators of international crimes. committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel is not cooperating with the commission, which it says has anti-Israel bias. The COI says Israel is obstructing its work and preventing researchers from entering both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
