A panel of U.N. experts has accused Israel of “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza through attacks on women’s healthcare facilities, deliberately blocking medicine for pregnancies and neonatal care, and using sexual violence as a war strategy. In a new report, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory writes, “Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention.” The commission also documented the use of forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault, as part of Israeli forces’ standard operating procedure.

Mediated talks between Israel and Hamas continue today in Doha, as Palestinians in Gaza endured a 12th straight day of Israel’s total blockade of the Palestinian territory.