The human rights organisation has alleged that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip constitutes the crime of genocide under international law.
This morning, December 5th, Amnesty International released a report titled, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.
It contains months of research, extensive witness interviews, and in-depth analysis of both visual and digital evidence to constitute its claim – including satellite imagery and documentation of speeches by Israeli government and military officials.
It marks the first time Amnesty has alleged the crime of genocide during an ongoing conflict, and builds on a March report by the UN Special Rapporteur, which stated that there are ‘reasonable grounds to believe the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met’.
The Amnesty report states that the IDF has committed at least 3 of 5 acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention.
These acts include ‘indiscriminate killings of civilians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.’
Israel has dismissed the Amnesty International report, calling it ‘entirely false’.
A new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International has found that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide. pic.twitter.com/ck9j9J0aZV
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