A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded Tuesday that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, marking the three-member panel’s first such finding.

Israel immediately rejected the finding, as it has when other bodies and individuals have used the term to describe its campaign in Gaza.

In a 72-page report, the three-member panel accused Israel of committing four genocidal acts since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, including killing Palestinians and creating conditions to cause the “physical destruction in whole or in part” of the Palestinian people. They cited the destruction of a fertility clinic as evidence that Israel was “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

The panel accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and former

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