The Gaza Genocide

On 16 September 2025, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, which was established on 27 May 2021 by the Human Rights Council, published its report detailing the ‘conduct of the Israeli security forces in Gaza. This commentary presents a summary of the report of the Independent Commission on Gaza with a view to sustaining a public discussion on the crime of genocide, on state accountability under international law and on the suffering and profound wrongs committed against the people of Gaza—the massacre of children epitomising the inhumanity of the parties standing with Israel—complicit either actively or through their silence and refusal to name the wrong. It is hoped that a discussion of this report will be part of the cascading international resistance against the indefensible actions of the state of Israel and its allies.