Ammon News - An investigation released Thursday by a special UN commission confirmed that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip through the systematic destruction of reproductive health care facilities.

The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that the occupying authorities partially destroyed the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of the reproductive health sector, amounting to two categories of genocide.

The UN Genocide Convention defines this crime as any acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, or religious group.

The investigation found that Israel engaged in at least two of the five acts the UN Convention defines as genocide.

It indicated that Israel was "deliberately inflicting conditions of life on the group (Palestinians) calculated to bring about its physical destruction and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

"These violations not only caused severe direct physical and psychological harm to women and girls, but also had long-term, irreversible consequences for the psychological and reproductive health and fertility prospects of Palestinians as a whole," said Navi Pillay, chair of the committee, in a statement.

The investigation found that Israel carried out systematic attacks targeting Gaza's health infrastructure, including hospitals and clinics providing reproductive health services.

It affirmed that this led to the near-total destruction of the health sector's ability to care for pregnant women and newborns.

It emphasized that "severe restrictions on essential medical supplies and medicines exacerbated the deteriorating reproductive health of women and girls in Gaza, directly contributing to high maternal and newborn mortality rates." WAFA