Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

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The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI OPTEJI) was founded after the United Nations Human Rights Council voted, on 27 May 2021, to set up a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate possible war crimes and other abuses committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories. This followed the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis. The Commission has subsequently published several reports on possible war crimes and other abuses. On 19 June 2024, the Commission reported that Israeli forces and Palestinian militant groups including Hamas were responsible for war crimes, and that Israel was responsible for crimes against humanity. A pattern of sexual violence by Palestinian militants against Israelis during the attacks on 7 October 2023 was identified, among other offences. Israel was found to have intentionally attacked civilians in Gaza and to have carried out the extermination of Palestinians...

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