A UN special committee set up to investigate Israel’s practices in Palestine has formally presented its landmark report which likens Israeli policy in Gaza to genocide, reports. The committee says Israel’s actions in Gaza, including the killings of civilians and aid workers, the systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid and the use of “starvation as a method of war” are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”. The committee also raises concerns about an “apartheid system in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem” and Israel’s plan to double the settler population in the occupied Syrian Golan by 2027. The committee recommends that all UN member states urgently “halt all offensive arms transfers, including weapons, explosives, guns and/or ammunition, to Israel”. The committee was established in 1968 by a UN General Assembly resolution and its current members are from Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka.