'Sounds like ChatGPT': Israel’s reply to UN genocide findings mocked by report co-author
Israel has been ridiculed for issuing what critics called a “boring” and “ChatGPT-like” response to a United Nations inquiry commission’s report concluding that it is committing genocide in its years-long war in Gaza.
Chris Sidoti, co-author of the report and a UN commissioner, criticised Israel for spending heavily on foreign propaganda but still producing statements that “no one takes seriously.”
“Honestly, the Israeli responses are becoming so boring. You know, they say the same thing every time. They're producing the responses by ChatGPT these days,” said Sidoti, a commissioner at the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
The UN commission’s findings are the strongest yet to detail the extent of Israel’s actions in Gaza. The 72-page report presents evidence that Israel has committed four acts of genocide since 2023: killing Palestinians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as “fake” and as merely echoing “Hamas falsehoods.”
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“Israel categorically rejects this distorted and false report and calls for the immediate abolition of this Commission of Inquiry,” the ministry said in a post on X.
“In stark contrast to the lies in the report, Hamas is the party that attempted genocide in Israel — murdering 1,200 people, raping women, burning families alive, and openly declaring its goal of killing every Jew,” it claimed.
Sidoti urged Israel to address the evidence presented in the report.
“I would want them to engage with the evidence but they never engage with the evidence. They put the report into ChatGPT and then they put out the standard response, so no one takes it seriously
Over the course of the Gaza war, more than 10% of the territory’s 2.2 million Palestinian people have been killed or wounded, according to Israel’s former military chief. Palestinian authorities put the toll at 65,000 dead and more than 164,000 injured.
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