GENEVA (Reuters) -The Israeli government has shown a clear intent to establish permanent control over Gaza and to ensure a Jewish majority in the occupied West Bank, a United Nations commission said in a report on Tuesday.
The U.N. report details Israeli authorities’ extensive, systematic demolition of civilian infrastructure in Gaza’s corridors and buffer zone – resulting in Israel expanding control to 75% of the Gaza strip by July this year.
“Israeli forces have also intentionally altered the geography of Gaza” through the creation of military corridors, expanding the border buffer zone and establishing security zones, the report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said.
Israel maintains that its war is not against the population of Gaza but against the Hamas militant group that controls the enclave and led an attack on Israeli territory in 2023 that precipitated the war.
The Israeli mission in Geneva dismissed the report’s findings.
“Hamas has genocidal intent towards Israel, the report has everything backwards. This Commission does not miss an opportunity to reveal its true character and politically-driven agenda.”
(Reporting by Olivia Le PoidevinEditing by Matthias Williams and Peter Graff)
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