Niva Pillay as head of a special panel convened by the United Nations Human Rights Ciuncil, presented the panel’s report Tuesday accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza and said Israel had met four out of five criteria qualifying the crime of genocide, including, she said, targeting Gazan children for death, and bizarrely Israel’s destruction of frozen embryos.

She accused prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, president Isaac Herzog and former defense minister Yav Galant specifically as having incited genocide through their statements and actions. Pillay went on to say at the press conference that member-states should intervene in the conflict immediately to stop the alleged genocide. She said member-states “don’t need” to wait for a ruling from the UN’s body responsible for trying the crime of genocide, the International Court of Justice.

In 1999 UK prime minister Tony Blaire and US president Bill Clinton used the ‘higher necessity” argument of preventing genocide of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to invade Serbia and carpet-bomb Belgrade and Novi Sad for around 60 days and nights. The UN treaty for the prevention of genocide and the Nuremberg courts claim prevention of genocide supersedes national boundaries and sovereignty, and demands outside states intervene.

The European Commission responded to Pillay’s call almost in real time, promising to slap sanctions on Israel on Wednesday in contravention to the Israeli-EU trade agreement.