US President Donald Trump asserted that it was Hamas that tried to commit genocide in Israel on October 7, 2023, when asked by a reporter about a UN report published last week claiming Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

“I haven’t seen it,” Trump replied. “But did anybody commit genocide on October 7? What do you think about that?”

“That was genocide at the highest level. That was murder, genocide; you can call it whatever you want. But little babies were chopped in half. Arms were cut off, people; heads were cut off people. That’s genocide also, I guess.”

It should be noted that the UN Commission that published the report about Israel’s so-called “genocide” was chaired by Navi Pillay, a vicious antisemite with a decades-long background of rabid anti-Israel rhetoric. The report made no mention of the October 7 massacre or the Israeli hostages, nor of Hamas’s decades of belligerence against Israel, its buildup of military infrastructure in Gaza, and its brutal reign of terror over Gazan citizens. UN Watch described the report as “nothing more than pro-Hamas propaganda cloaked in legal language.”

The report also relied on Hamas data and, most importantly, failed to provide evidence of Israel’s “so-called” war crimes and “genocide” in Gaza.

The full UN Watch rebuttal of the report can be read here.

(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)