Israel committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza

In a report published today, Amnesty International accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza war, something that Israeli leaders have long denied.

The London-based human rights organization said it reached this conclusion after months of analyzing the facts and statements of Israeli officials.

The organization said the legal threshold for the crime of genocide had been met, the first such ruling during an active armed conflict.

Israel has consistently rejected any accusation of genocide, saying that it respects international law and has the right to defend itself after the attack launched by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) across the border from Gaza on October 7, 2023, which led to the outbreak of war.

The Gaza Ministry of Health says the Israeli military campaign since then has killed more than 44,400 Palestinians and injured many others.

Palestinian and United Nations officials say there are no longer any safe areas in Gaza, the small coastal enclave densely populated and densely populated.

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced from their homes, some up to ten times.

Presenting the report to journalists in The Hague, Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said that the conclusion (concluded in the report) was not taken “lightly or with a political or selective motive.”

She told reporters after presenting the report, “There is genocide being committed. There is no doubt about it. There is not a single doubt in our minds after six months of in-depth and focused research.”

Amnesty International said it concluded that Israel and the Israeli army committed at least three of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: killing, causing serious physical or psychological harm, and imposing living conditions deliberately intended to destroy. physical of a protected group.

These acts were committed intentionally, as required by the agreement, according to Amnesty International, which said it reviewed more than 100 statements from Israeli officials.

Callamard said that Amnesty International did not aim to prove genocide, but after reviewing the evidence and data as a whole, she said the only conclusion was that “Israel deliberately and intentionally committed genocide.”

She added, “The assertion that Israel’s war in Gaza aims only to eliminate Hamas and not to physically destroy the Palestinians as a national and ethnic group, this assertion simply does not stand up to scrutiny.”

Amnesty International urged the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the alleged genocide.