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A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive services, including an I.V.F. clinic where thousands of embryos were destroyed, in what it called an effort to prevent Palestinian births.
The report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, called that and other actions that cause harm to women and girls “genocidal acts” and accused Israel of punishing Palestinians collectively for the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 people.
Israel’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva immediately rejected the report, saying in a statement that the commission was engaged in “a shameless attempt to incriminate” the Israeli military “to advance its predetermined and biased political agenda.” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of attacking the country with “false accusations.”
The commission, set up by the Human Rights Council in 2021 and made up of three lawyers with expertise in human rights, said its report drew on earlier investigations it had carried out since the Hamas attack...