Israel has condemned the United Nations for what it described as “anti-Israel fabrications” after a UN committee said Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, Al Jazeera reports.

“The UN is breaking its own record when it comes to biased reports, singling out Israel and anti-Israel fabrications,” the foreign ministry said.

The UN special committee said in a report that Israel was “intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury” in the Gaza Strip, accusing it of “using starvation as a method of war”.

But the ministry dismissed the accusations as “false claims”.

“The … report is an appalling example of the transformation of the UN into an organisation which is used as a pawn by terrorists who attack civilians in a democratic state,” it said in a statement shared by spokesman Oren Marmorstein on X.