{"id":315031,"date":"2026-01-22T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=315031"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:04:37","slug":"at-un-war-crimes-probe-pledges-to-continue-to-work-for-all-impacted-by-hamas-israel-conflict-commission-of-inquiry-press-briefing","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/at-un-war-crimes-probe-pledges-to-continue-to-work-for-all-impacted-by-hamas-israel-conflict-commission-of-inquiry-press-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, war crimes probe pledges to continue to work for all impacted by Hamas-Israel conflict, Commission of Inquiry press briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel at a press conference, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland – 22 January 2026 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo \/ Emmanuel Hungrecker<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As President Trump launched the international Board of Peace plan for Gaza<\/a> on Thursday, top independent rights experts tasked by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Human Rights Council with investigating grave abuses linked to the Hamas-Israel war pledged to continue their work seeking justice and accountability for all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Peace has been set up pursuant to a plan that was submitted to the Security Council that has been voted upon and accepted,\u201d said Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel. \u201cAs a Commission of Inquiry, we see our task as investigating into violations of human rights. And that task we understand to be the mandate that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ has given us – and we will continue with that mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Commission of Inquiry \u2013 one of the Human Rights Council\u2019s top investigative mechanisms – was set up by the forum\u2019s 47 Member States in May 2021<\/a>. In November last year, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Security Council passed Resolution 2803 welcoming the establishment of the Board of Peace to redevelop Gaza.<\/p>\n

Last September, the Commission\u2019s then Chair, former Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ human rights chief Navi Pillay, declared that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas-led terror attacks that killed some 1,200 people in Israel in October 2023, sparking the war. Israel strongly denied that claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to investigate violations of human rights by all duty-bearers and in both territories,\u201d said Mr. Muralidhar, who expressed hope that the Commission\u2019s earlier findings \u201chopefully will feed into some adjudicatory system to deliver lasting justice to the people in those in these two territories\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the agenda this year, the Commission plans to investigate \u201cattacks by armed Palestinian militias on others within these two territories\u201d, he continued, before stressing the independent nature of the panel.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions about the Board of Peace, the chief investigator said that he expected the peace plan it was pursuing \u201cto accommodate the interests of all the people in the conflict zone\u201d.<\/p>\n

At a press conference in Geneva, the panel of independent human rights experts \u2013 who do not work for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and are not paid for their work \u2013 also condemned the reported killing of three Palestinian journalists in central Gaza in a reported Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you’re killing a journalist, it means you have something to, because if you have nothing to hide, you are going to call the journalist so that they look at what is happening and tell the world,\u201d said Florence Mumba, Commissioner. \u201cBecause without journalists, many people in other corners of the world wouldn’t know what is happening. So, we feel concerned about that disruption of the work of the journalists and we do hope as a Commission that journalists will not be deterred.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about Special Procedures of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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