Palestinians amid the rubble after an Israeli strike on a Gaza neighborhood, Dec. 5, 2024. (Credit: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)
More than a year after the eruption of the war in Gaza, a damning report by Amnesty International, made public Thursday in The Hague, accuses Israel of “committing genocide” in the Palestinian enclave.In this document, Israel is accused of committing three of the five acts listed in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), which defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”Israel is accused of killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Read also Is Israel responsible for ethnic cleansing in Gaza? According to the organization's secretary-general, Agnès Callamard, the report...
More than a year after the eruption of the war in Gaza, a damning report by Amnesty International, made public Thursday in The Hague, accuses Israel of “committing genocide” in the Palestinian enclave.In this document, Israel is accused of committing three of the five acts listed in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), which defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”Israel is accused of killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Read also Is Israel responsible for ethnic cleansing in Gaza? According to the organization's secretary-general, Agnès Callamard,...