Israel slams UN report as 'political blood libel' for alleging deliberate targeting of Palestinian children

close Video Israeli President Isaac Herzog sounds alarm on global surge in antisemitism Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed Christian leaders from around the world about the surge in antisemitism at the Jerusalem Summit in Israel. (Credit: The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel reacted angrily over a new United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry report alleging the Jewish state had engaged in the "deliberate targeting of Palestinian children." Prior reports from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and Israel garnered accusations of antisemitism and incitement to violence. N., Danny Danon, told Fox News Digital that "this is not an investigative report. It is a political blood libel disguised as a U. This commission reaches its conclusions before examining the facts and repeatedly publishes reports that serve one purpose only: to vilify Israel. Instead of addressing Hamas' crimes, the October 7 massacre, the hostages, and Hamas' cynical use of children and civilians as human shields, the commission has once again chosen to place Israel in the dock." Danon added that "Israel will continue to defend its citizens and fight terrorism, regardless of how many false reports are published U. N. institutions." Representatives from the COI and Human Rights Council did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment on the concerns addressed about the report. Asked for a reaction from U. N. chief Antonio Guterres to the report, his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told Fox News Digital "it’s not his report to comment on." ISRAELI AMBASSADOR LASHES OUT AT UN OFFICIAL, CONDEMNS UK, FRANCE, CANADA STATEMENT ON AID A bloodied handprint stains a wall inside a house in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border after a Hamas attack days earlier. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/) Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission told reporters during a press briefing that, "The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed ." He said "Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard ." ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital that the COI’s "sham ‘inquiry’ makes the totally unjustified claim of legal authority, while at the same time systematically violating every conceivable legal rule of fairness, impartiality, and due process. N. ecosystem to delegitimize Israel." DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP Salo Aizenberg, director of media watchdog group HonestReporting, who has researched and debunked many of the claims made , told Fox News Digital that the COI’s "report is built on a fictional battlefield where Hamas and [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] do not exist, and where hospitals are treated as purely civilian spaces despite extensive evidence of their military use and infiltration .