2025-09-17
26 分钟Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world.
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency.
That is Navi Pele.
She's the chair of an independent commission set up by the United Nations to investigate human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Her commission has just concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Now that's a big moment,
even if the UN is complex and this expert panel doesn't speak for the whole of it.
Israel, for its part, has dismissed this report, describing it as distorted and false.
Israel categorically rejects the libelous rant published today by this commission of inquiry.
Is this truly about human rights or is it about defending terrorist leaders who deliberately use innocent civilians as human shields?
The genocide question has been at the centre of a massive debate since the war began.
But what's the actual evidence?
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khaled in Washington, D.C.
And I'm Tristan Redman in London.
And today on The Global Story, What, if anything, could this investigation change?
For Gazans,
the question of whether a genocide is unfolding around them isn't a semantic or a symbolic one,
or even a legal one.
It's a matter of life and death.
On Tuesday, Israel launched a major ground offensive in Gaza City.