The allegations of genocide against Israel took more hits this week following the reported admission by a senior member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Israel that claims had not been independently verified.
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claims → take → Israel
This comes as the Palestinian Ministry of Health data shows Gaza’s population grew in 2025.
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population → come → 2025
Critics say the accusations fueled antisemitism around the world and that those pushing the genocide claims — including major international media outlets — need to be made accountable for their words.
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In September 2025, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel (COI) released a report stating that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza since October 2023.
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Israel → include → October
In the report, the COI cited an article from the Guardian stating that 83% of Gazans killed in the conflict were civilians.
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% → cite → conflict
Following the release of data from the COI commissioner, Chris Sidoti, in an interview last week reported by JNS and posted on X was asked whether the COI had independently established that the remainder of Palestinians said to be killed in the fighting were civilians, Sidoti said, "No, we didn’t because we don’t have that information …
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we → follow → information
We literally do not know, nor does anybody else know, including the IDF, how many militants were there."
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militants → know → IDF
The former chair of the committee, Navanethem "Navay" Pillay, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week.
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chair → award → Prize
The Palestinian MOH Health Information Unit recently released statistics on overall mortality in Gaza for 2025.
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Unit → release → 2025
This is the first update to include non-violent deaths since 2022, prior to the outbreak of conflict following the terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.
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This → include → Oct.
The MOH reported that 24,650 deaths were registered in 2025, with 18,085 (73.4%) being males and 6,565 (26.6%) being females.
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6,565 → report → 2025
70.1% of deaths, or 17,286 cases, were attributed to direct targeting in the war.
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The MOH also reported 50,227 live births in 2025.
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Fox News Digital reached out to officials at the ministry but did not get a response by press time.
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Digital → reach → time
Elliot Malin, president at Stratos Council, told Fox News Digital that the MOH data is further evidence against accusations of genocide.
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data → tell → genocide
With the number of live births in 2025 far greater than the number of deaths, Malin says it is "very hard for us to infer the intent of Israel was to destroy Palestinians in Gaza to a substantial portion.
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intent → say → portion
"We’re not seeing a population under threat.
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We are seeing that it is actually able to sustain itself," Malin said.
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Malin → see → itself
He took issue with the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declaration last year that famine had reached Gaza in the summer of 2025.
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famine → take → 2025
Malin said that "if the population is sustaining and growing through this, what they call a famine, it indicates that there is enough caloric intake to sustain the population."
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Gabriel Epstein, senior policy associate at Israel Policy Forum, also told Fox News Digital that widespread allegations of genocide are not supported by the MOH report.
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allegations → tell → report
First, the report "absolutely" demonstrates population growth in 2025, according to Epstein, who added it would "be surprising" if the population of Gaza, "one of the youngest…in the world," was not growing.
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While he says that it is impossible to discern the actual rate of population growth given factors like emigration and immigration, Epstein said that "the argument that we would need to make to say that there was negative population growth in 2025 would be to more than double the number of both violent and non-violent deaths."
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Andrew Fox, senior associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that "the data now shows that there was no famine in Gaza."
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data → tell → Gaza
He said that the allegations play into "the ages-old blood libel of Jews killing children and undoubtedly stoked the global fires of antisemitism.
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allegations → say → antisemitism
Agencies and the media who shared these false allegations have blood on their hands."
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who → share → hands
Epstein said that the latest MOH data is strong proof against the statements from external organizations who used estimates and ratios of non-violent deaths from other conflict zones to suppose that the MOH’s ongoing count of the death toll in Gaza was inaccurate, and that deaths had likely reached multiple hundreds of thousands.
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deaths → say → thousands
These estimated figures were largely used to drive the narrative that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
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Israel → estimate → Gaza
He said that current MOH figures "really eliminate the possibility that there is a much higher death toll driven by non-violent or non-trauma deaths."
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figures → say → deaths
He noted that comparing the latest report with ongoing MOH data on overall casualties throughout the war shows that the MOH was not "missing the vast, vast majority of [malnutrition-related] deaths you would have needed to be missing to justify the IPC’s assessment" that famine had reached parts of Gaza in summer 2025.
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famine → note → summer
The IPC did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about how new information impacts its prior declaration of famine.
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information → respond → famine
In the MOH’s favor, Epstein said that the current tranche of figures supports a real attempt at honest accounting from the health organization, which was accused of inflating civilian casualties — particularly those of women and children — during the early days of the war.
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which → say → war
In its latest report, however, the MOH does not distinguish how many terrorists were among those killed in the conflict.
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terrorists → distinguish → conflict
In fact, it states that "The number of deaths among males was approximately 4.9 times the number of deaths among females within this group — attributed principally to the direct targeting of working-age men during military operations."
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number → state → operations
A spokesperson from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told Fox News Digital that, "The IDF targets terrorists and military objectives, not civilians based on their age or gender.
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IDF → tell → age
The fact that more military-age men are disproportionately among those eliminated is consistent with the fact that terrorist organizations are predominantly composed of men in this age group.
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organizations → eliminate → group
It does not demonstrate that the IDF targets individuals because they are men or of a certain age."
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they → demonstrate → age
The spokesperson added that, "Targets are selected based on their military nature or an individual’s involvement in terrorist organizations or participation in hostilities, in accordance with international law and IDF directives.
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Unlike Hamas, which deliberately targets Israeli civilians, the IDF takes all feasible precautions to mitigate harm to civilians and operates under a structured targeting framework designed to ensure the identification of lawful military objectives."
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Epstein also pushed back against the MOH claim that working-aged men are being purposefully targeted.
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