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New Delhi: A new UN report that reasserts the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and documents its continuation even after the October 2025 “ceasefire” triggered sharp exchanges yesterday at the United Nations between Israeli and American diplomats on one side and the Indian head of the UN commission which authored the report, Justice (Retd) S. Muralidhar, on the other.

The report, submitted to the General Assembly, concluded that Israeli authorities and forces continued to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide after the ceasefire.

Israel’s envoy to the UN dismissed the report as “historical fiction”, while the United States called its findings baseless and accused the UN of institutionalised antisemitism.

Responding to the remarks, Muralidhar described the US representative’s remark that Israel was treated as “the Jew among nations” as “a thoughtless and tasteless comment, and maybe even racist”.

“I would strongly resist this attempt by the United States to delegitimise the work of this commission,” he said during the exchange at the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee on Monday.

Muralidhar defended the commission’s methodology, saying its conclusions rested on evidence collected and analysed under established protocols aligned with those of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. “We don’t arrive at conclusions unless we are completely satisfied,” he said, adding that the commission was prepared to share its evidence with any adjudicatory body.

He also rejected the allegation that the commission had ignored........

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