IDF One of the Most Criminal Armies in the World: UN Commissioner

Israel is accused of carrying out a U.S.-backed starvation campaign and an offensive that shows no signs of slowing

Israel fields one of the most criminal armies in the world, according to a top UN official.

Chris Sidoti, an Australian expert on international human rights law, was asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the IDF is the “most moral army in the world” amid the massacre in Gaza.

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He said, half mockingly, that perhaps Netanyahu is a better judge on how to define “moral,” but he said his expertise is in making assessments on criminal conduct.

He referred to the recently released UN report and said, “The only conclusion you can draw is that the Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world.

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Netanyahu called the IDF the “most moral army” in the world after Israel carried out a bombing on a UN school in central Gaza that killed 45 – including dozens of children.

The U.N. human rights office looked into six Israeli attacks that caused many casualties and destroyed civilian infrastructure, according to Reuters.

During these attacks, the IDF “may have systematically violated the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.”

“The requirement to select means and methods of warfare that avoid or at the very least minimize to every extent civilian harm appears to have been consistently violated in Israel's bombing campaign,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said, according to the report.

Ajith Sunghay, Head of OHCHR Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said Gazans are “barely surviving” after being repeatedly displaced by violence and IDF evacuation orders.

“The hospitals are packed to overflowing and the smell is unbearable…sewage is spilling into tents, there is no clean water…If the bombs don’t kill, disease will,” he said.

“The sounds of bombs, guns, drones are constant,” he added. “The sound of war is non-stop day and night. In my 22 years of work at the UN, including in many conflict and post-conflict situations, I've never seen such challenges for the UN and human rights and humanitarian aid partners to operate. The destruction is unimaginable.”