Overview

• Spain’s attorney general created a working team to investigate alleged rights violations in Gaza and to share evidence with competent international bodies, including the ICC.
• The Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded this week that genocide is occurring in Gaza and said Isaac Herzog, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant incited its commission.
• Israel rejected the commission’s conclusions and described the report as distorted and false.
• The International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for suspected war crimes, but the court depends on states to execute arrests.
• Pillay said investigators documented dehumanising rhetoric and traumatic abuses and will compile a list of suspected perpetrators and examine possible complicity by supportive states, with her stepping down in November.