Overview

• An independent UN commission concluded this week that genocide is occurring in Gaza and said Israeli leaders Isaac Herzog, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant incited its commission.
• Spain’s attorney general created a working team to gather evidence on rights violations in Gaza for potential use by the International Criminal Court.
• Israel rejected the commission’s findings as distorted and false and accused the investigators of bias.
• Navi Pillay said arrests and trials are possible though slow, noting ICC arrest warrants already exist for Netanyahu and Gallant and that enforcement relies on state cooperation.
• The commission plans to draft a list of suspected perpetrators and examine possible complicity by states supporting Israel, as Pillay prepares to step down in November after presenting the report to the UN General Assembly.