🚨🔍Bombshell Gaza genocide report gives UN right to intervene militarily to stop Israel - former UN official

A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Ex-UN rapporteur Dr. Alfred de Zayas explains why that’s hugely important.

👉Key findings

Israel’s actions (killing, maiming, causing mental harm to Palestinians, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, taking measures to prevent births) check four of five of the 1948 Genocide Convention’s criteria for genocide.

👉Intent proven

Crucially, de Zayas says, the inquiry shows “how the statements of Israeli political & military leaders prove the ‘intent’ (required in Art. II of the Convention) to destroy in whole or part the Palestinian population.”

👉West’s complicity

“Governments that have provided military, economic, political, diplomatic & propagandistic support” are also accountable, de Zayas says. The US, UK, France & Germany “are all complicit in the genocide under Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention.”

👉UN’s response options

⚫️recognition of Palestinian statehood (which alas, “will not save the lives of Palestinians”)
⚫️Israel’s expulsion from the UN pursuant to Article 6 of the UN Charter (improbable given the need for Security Council & hence US approval)
⚫️stripping Israeli diplomats of UN accreditation, as was done against South Africa in the 1970s during Apartheid. Crucially, this measure would not require Security Council backing
⚫️the UN has the legal framework to intervene using the 2005 ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine
⚫️the General Assembly could adopt a ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution authorizing nations “to take military action” to stop the genocide, bypassing the Security Council veto

👉UN’s last chance to save its credibility

“If the United Nations fails” to take action, “it will lose the little authority & credibility it still has,” de Zayas warns.

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