Today, Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza City. Part of an operation Israel says is designed

to seize Gaza's largest city and defeat Hamas. Dozens more Palestinians were killed today

in Israeli attacks. Health officials in Gaza announced earlier today that more than 65,000

Palestinians have now been killed in nearly two years of war.

And a coalition of leading aid groups urged the international community to take stronger

measures to stop the offensive after a commission of UN experts accused Israel of committing

genocide.

Here's Nick Schiffin with more.

An independent international commission attached to the UN's Human Rights Council released

its report this week that accuses Israel of an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The UN's Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,

a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group,

and cites as examples, killing, injuring, inflicting conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction,

preventing births, or transferring children.

The commission accuses Israel of committing at least four of those five acts,

and that statements made by Israeli authorities are, quote, direct evidence of genocidal intent.

Then defense minister Yuav Galant here on October 9th, 2023.

We are ordering a complete siege on Gaza, no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed.

We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.

To discuss the report, I first turned to Craig Mokhyber.

He's an international human rights lawyer and former senior UN official, and he joins me now from New York.

Craig Mokhyber, thanks very much. Welcome to the NewsHour.

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