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Rights organization Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and called on the UN International Criminal Court to “urgently consider including genocide as an indictable crime and for all countries to use all legal means to bring the perpetrators to justice.”
Israel has repeatedly rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, insisting it has the right to defend itself after the Palestinian territory’s Hamas rulers launched a brutal attack on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 more hostage. At least 44,580 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli military offensive in Gaza since the war began, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, and most of its population has been displaced internally.
In a report In a statement published on Thursday, the London-based rights group said it had found “sufficient grounds” to conclude that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide in Gaza.
Genocide consists of “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group,” according to the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
“Amnesty International’s report shows that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” the group’s secretary-general, Agnes Kalamar, said in a statement. “These actions include murder, infliction of grievous bodily or mental harm, and the deliberate creation of living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza that are designed to lead to their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated the Palestinians in Gaza as an inhumane group, lacking in human rights and dignity worthy. , demonstrating his intention to physically destroy them. Our damning findings should serve as a wake-up call to the international community: that is the genocide must stop now.”
The rights group said countries that supply weapons to Israel, including the United States, “must know that they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and risk becoming complicit in genocide.”
Amnesty said such countries “must act now to immediately end Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza”.
“The deplorable and bigoted organization Amnesty International has once again produced a fabricated report that is completely false and based on lies,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said on social media in response to the report.
Amnesty International’s own branch in Israel said it did not accept the main findings of the report, which accused the country of genocide, but called for an immediate end to the war and an investigation into serious violations of international law and crimes against humanity.
The report comes two weeks after the publication of the International Criminal Court arrest warrants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, as well as the leader of Hamas, who Israel says was killed in a summer airstrike.
On the other hand, on Wednesday, an Israeli to strike in a tent city where many displaced people live in southern Gaza, killed at least 21 people and wounded 28, said Atif al-Hout, director of Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Hanyounis.
Israel’s military said it had hit high-ranking Hamas fighters “involved in terrorist activities” in the region, the Associated Press reported. Earlier Israeli strikes in Gaza killed eight people, including four children, AP reports.
