Indian judge behind scathing Gaza UN report urges India to stop arming Israel

India should reconsider the supply of arms to Israel and ensure it is not "going down in global history as having contributed to the genocide in Gaza", says an Indian judge who was one of the main authors of the UN’s scathing report that said Israel’s targeting of children amounted to genocide.

S Muralidhar, former Delhi High Court chief justice who chairs the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said India "should seriously think about" ending arms transfers because "all the munitions and the arms in Israel's hands are being used to target defenceless unarmed children". 

In an interview with India’s leading magazine, Frontline, he added that India "should not contribute to the failure of the UN system" and should speak out "clearly and unambiguously" against attacks on children.

India had played an important role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights alongside the framing of its own Constitution, he said, and urged India to uphold that legacy.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and US, he told the interviewer, says nothing about Gaza or occupied Palestinian territory. 

“It seems to be that this will continue. The air strikes in Gaza, the attacks on medical facilities, on children will continue unless countries do something about it. It can't be allowed to go on like this.

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Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, discusses the findings of the commission, the impact of the war on Palestinian children, and the challenges of enforcing international law amid global political…

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