Israel-Gaza war live: UN report says both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes | Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s military now says that about 160 rockets have been fired into the north of the country from Lebanon.

In a statement the IDF said it had struck back at one of the sites inside Lebanon from where rockets have been launched. There are no reports of any Israeli casualties. The IDF said:

Following the sirens that sounded in northern Israel a short while ago, approximately 70 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon. A number of the projectiles were intercepted, most of them fell in open areas, and several fell in a number of locations in northern Israel. The details are under review. No injuries were reported. In addition, a short while ago, an IAF aircraft struck the launcher that fired toward northern Israel at 10:00 this morning in the area of Yaroun.

Earlier the IDF reported a barrage of 90 rockets been fired. Hezbollah has claimed the attack, which comes after an Israeli strike on the village of Jouya in southern Lebanon killed a senior Hezbollah field commander.

Hebrew news website Ynet described the attack as “unprecedented” and quoted the mayor of Tiberias, Yossi Nevea, saying “The feeling is very difficult, this is the first time in months that there has been an alarm here. The city is prepared and we are all fully prepared. There have been interceptions from what we know.”

A UN report has said that in its view both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes on and after 7 October.

The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report covers the period from 7 October to 31 December 2023, and the findings are based on interviews with victims and witnesses, hundreds of submissions, satellite imagery, medical reports and verified open-source information.

The report accuses Hamas of “intentionally directing attacks against civilians” and committing “murder or wilful killing”. It also accuses Hamas of “torture, inhuman or cruel treatment” and “indiscriminately firing projectiles towards populated areas in Israel”. Hamas was also accused of “the war crime of outrages upon personal dignity” noting during the 7 October attack “the desecration of corpses by burning, mutilation and decapitation” and “the sexualized desecration of both male and female corpses” and “sexual violence”.

The report goes on to list what it says are Israeli war crimes, including “starvation as a method of warfare; murder or wilful killing; intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects; forcible transfer; sexual violence; outrages upon personal dignity” and says that “Israel inflicted collective punishment on the Palestinian population in Gaza.”

In its conclusions, the report says:

7 October 2023 has marked a clear turning point for both Israelis and Palestinians, and it presents a watershed moment that can change the direction of this conflict; with a real risk of further solidifying and expanding the occupation. Amid months of losses and despair, retribution and atrocities, the only tangible result has been compounding the immense suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis, with civilians, yet again, bearing the brunt of decisions by those in power.

It continues:

For Israelis, the attack of 7 October was unprecedented in scale in its modern history, when in one single day hundreds of people were killed and abducted, invoking painful trauma of past persecution not only for Israeli Jews but for Jewish people everywhere … For Palestinians, Israel’s military operation and attack in Gaza has been the longest, largest and bloodiest since 1948. It has caused immense damage and loss of life and triggered for many Palestinians traumatic memories of the Nakba and other Israeli incursions.

Reuters reports the findings will be discussed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next week. The COI is composed of three independent experts.

Israel does not cooperate with the commission, which it says has an anti-Israel bias. Israel’s diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva has already rejected the findings. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said “The COI has once again proven that its actions are all in the service of a narrow-led political agenda against Israel.”

The COI says Israel obstructs its work and prevented investigators from accessing both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

The report is available to download here.

Israel’s military has issued an update on the missile barrage launched this morning from Lebanon. In a statement the IDF said:

Following the sirens that sounded in northern Israel a short while ago, approximately 90 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon. A number of the projectiles were intercepted and others fell in several locations in northern Israel. As a result, fires broke out in a number of areas. The details are under review.

The claims have not been independently verified. It would be the largest barrage from Lebanon launched at Israel since 7 October.

Haaretz reports that Hezbollah has claimed responsibility. There are no reports of any casualties.

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Hamas has issued a formal response to the US ceasefire proposal which seeks to bring an end to the Gaza war, with an official saying the group was seeking some “amendments”, and that their priority was to bring a “complete stop” to the war.

The US has said it is evaluating the Hamas response.

It comes as an Israeli strike on the village of Jouya in southern Lebanon killed a senior Hezbollah field commander and three fighters, according to the Lebanese armed group. Taleb Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, was the most senior member of the group killed in the eight months of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, a security source told Reuters.

More on that in a moment, first here’s a summary of the day’s other main events.

• US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who is in Israel as part of his eighth regional trip since the war began, said that Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had “reaffirmed his commitment” to the ceasefire plan outlined by the US, although it has not been formally accepted by either party to the conflict.

• Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday it was the responsibility of the UN security council and the international community to press Israel to open all land crossings into the Gaza Strip to allow an increased flow of aid in.

• Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on the international community to force Israel to stop using hunger as a weapon and remove obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip

• Earlier on Tuesday, Hezbollah claimed to fire a barrage of missiles at Israeli targets in the Golan Heights area. Israeli media reported fires in the Nahal Zavitan area, with the head of the local council saying it remains unclear whether the fires were the direct result of rocket or missile strikes, or the result of fallen shrapnel

• The UK has issued more than 100 arms export licences to Israel between the Hamas attack on 7 October and 31 May, according to government figures. The statistics show no arms export licence application was rejected or revoked during the conflict

• The US has said it will provide an additional $404m in humanitarian aid to support Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and the region, bringing, it says, the total US assistance to more than $674m over the past eight months