By Sita Planasari

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Irish President Michael Higgins has called for the removal of Israel and its arms-supplying allies from the United Nations (UN). This statement, made on Tuesday and reported by Anadolu, follows the conclusion of an independent UN Human Rights Council expert team that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”I think it’s a very, very important document, and of course, the chair of that working group was the chair of the working group on Rwanda, and it explicitly states that four of the main actions as referred to in the 1948 convention on genocide are met,” Higgins told reporters.”It goes further and suggests that the incitement to genocide has been present, and it specifically mentions those in high office who use language to encourage and incite genocide,” he added.The Commission of Inquiry into the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, after a two-year investigation of events since October 7, 2023, concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces have committed “four out the five” acts of genocide defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.In response to the report’s findings, Higgins also criticized the European Union (EU). “I believe the EU will find it extraordinarily difficult to ever be a union in any sense again when some of its strongest members are deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, manmade, really atrocious infliction on people,” he remarked.He further highlighted the report’s findings on the destruction of infrastructure. “That report says 90% of all housing has been destroyed, education facilities have been destroyed, and health care facilities and fertility facilities are being destroyed—in other words, you’re attacking birth.”Higgins urged the international community to increase pressure on Israel to “stop this carnage” and the “slaughter of civilians.”The Israeli military continues its genocide in the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 65,000 Palestinian residents since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave, and experts have documented a widespread famine.Editor’s Choice: Thousands of Palestinians Flee Gaza Amid Israeli Ground AttacksClick here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News