A United Nations Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, implicating top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in inciting these acts. This report emerges amidst Israel's announcement of a ground operation in Gaza City. Israel has dismissed the report as "scandalous" and "fake."

"Today we witness in real time how the promise of 'never again' is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency," Navi Pillay, head of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and a former International Criminal Court judge, stated at a press briefing in Geneva.

Pillay further asserted that "the responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza."