Jan Betlach wrote that Chris Sidoti, a member of the UN commission investigating the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, stated that the commission did not independently verify the claim that 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians. According to Betlach, the commission's report mentioned this figure in paragraph 21 and cited The Guardian as the source. Sidoti reportedly answered a question about whether the commission verified the claim by saying that it did not and that it "simply doesn't know." Betlach reminded that the commission, established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021 and led by Navi Pillay, concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. He described the method of transferring data between the media and the commission as "information laundering" and questioned how many other claims in the report underwent the same process. He also added that Pillay described the commission as an entity that essentially functioned as a court, while Sidoti emphasized that they were neither a court nor prosecutors. https://t.co/DdBz4F6WRE #OSN #Izrael #genocida (translated)
