Amnesty International human rights group has concluded that the Zionist entity’s war on Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide, in a report it said it was a “wake-up call” for the international community.
The report, published on Thursday, titled “You Feel Like You Are Subhuman”: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.
The London-based rights organization said its findings were based on “dehumanizing and genocidal statements by Israeli government and military officials”, satellite images documenting devastation, fieldwork and ground reports from Gazans.
It is the culmination of months of research by Amnesty, including extensive witness interviews, analysis of “visual and digital evidence”, including satellite imagery, and statements made by senior Israeli government and military officials.
“Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” Amnesty chief Agnes Callamard said in a statement.
“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now,” she added.
Israeli soldiers show off on social media with their abuse of Palestinians they kidnapped from Gaza, brutally beating them after blindfolding and handcuffing them. pic.twitter.com/87HOYhDhln
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Amnesty said the Israeli military has committed at least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention, including 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”.
“Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza,” Callamard said.
“It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice [ICJ] ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza,” she added.
Source: Amnesty International
