Thread by @NimerSultany

A new report by the UN Special Committee:

1. "Given the developments during the reporting period, the Special Committee is ever more convinced that the world is witnessing genocide in Gaza" ohchr.org/en/documents/t…

2. "Committee is shocked by the extent of land confiscation, targeting of communities, separation of families, demolitions, forced evictions, killings, physical abuse and other tactics employed... to push Palestinian communities from their lands and homes" in the West Bank

3. "Special Committee has received disturbing briefings on the systematic and widespread perpetration of sexual and gender-based violence, torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Palestinian detainees by Israeli military and security forces"

4. "On 14 July 2025... reported that, since 7 Oct '23, over 18,000 Palestinians, including 1,450 children & 560 women, had been arrested by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including E Jerusalem, + an unidentified number of detained Palestinians from Gaza"

5. "The Special Committee is particularly concerned by the targeting of children and their treatment in detention"

6. "the genocide in Gaza has had a devastating effect on civic space... peaceful demonstrations & other legitimate expression supporting Palestinians’ rights & denouncing the commission of international crimes by Israel have been conflated with terrorism, antisemitism or both"

7. The "Greater Israel" project: :"Israeli legislation makes it apparent that settler-colonialism is a key feature of the Israeli State."

8. "the practices of the Government of Israel continued to effectively align with the goals of the settler movement and it was clear, from both acts and rhetoric, that the current Israeli administration supported the “Greater Israel” vision."

9. "Since 7 October 2023, there has a been a ramping-up of racist rhetoric by Israeli leaders as to their settler-colonial aspirations and the territorial expansion of the Israeli State, including through means amounting to the most serious international crimes."

10. Israeli Occupation in Syria and Lebanon

11. "The ongoing genocide in Gaza and widespread ethnic cleansing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory more broadly are a historic tragedy fuelled by racist, discriminatory policies and practices and the abhorrent dehumanization of the Palestinians."

12. "After failing to prevent the Nakbah in 1947–1948 and letting the State of Israel risk the erasure of the indigenous Palestinian population with impunity ever since, the world must urgently and decisively change course."