On April 5, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution urging an arms embargo on Israel and calling on countries to “cease the sale, transfer and diversion of arms, munitions and other military equipment to Israel.” India abstained from voting in favour of this resolution.

The resolution came just two weeks after the publication of “Anatomy of a Genocide,” a report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, that gave the world evidentiary details on how Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

This report reaffirms the January preliminary ruling of the International Court of Justice that found that “some of the acts and omissions” committed by Israel during its attacks on Gaza “appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the [Genocide] Convention.”

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