UN senior inspector: I hope one day Israeli leaders are behind bars

According to Agence France-Presse, Navi Pillay, a former South African judge who presided over the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1994 and also served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, acknowledged that the pursuit of justice is a “slow process.”

In an interview with AFP, the UN independent inspector referred to a statement by Nelson Mandela, the symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, who said: “Everything seems impossible until it is done.”

Expressing hope that Israeli leaders will face legal proceedings, she stressed: “I do not consider it impossible that arrests and trials will take place in the future.”

Pillay’s independent international inquiry commission, in a report released Tuesday, stated that “genocide is occurring in Gaza,” a claim denied by the Israeli regime.

The investigators also concluded that Isaac Herzog, President of Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister; and Yoav Galant, former Defense Minister, were “responsible for committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.”

The Israeli regime rejected these findings, calling the report “distorted and incorrect,” but Navi Pillay insists that the similarities between the events in Gaza and Rwanda—where approximately 800,000 people were massacred—are clear.

As the head of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, she stated that seeing images of the killing and torture of civilians left a lifelong impact on her.