Israel has committed crimes against humanity, including “extermination,” in the occupied West Bank, United Nations-mandated investigators have reported.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that the Israeli government and its forces are also responsible for other war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Palestinian territory, including torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence.
The release of the report came as Israeli forces carried out a clampdown, including expulsions and demolitions, on Hebron following a gun attack last week.
The commission, which does not speak for the UN itself, first determined in a September 2025 report that Israel had committed “genocide” in its war on Gaza following Hamas’s deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel – a finding Israel flatly rejects.
In its new report, issued the day before Israel’s general election, the commission found that in the West Bank – which Israel has occupied since 1967 – Israeli military operations, reinforced by sustained settler violence, constitute a “widespread and systematic attack” against civilians.
“The Israeli authorities and forces have committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the West Bank, as well as persecution based on intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, race and ethnicity at its core,” it said.
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