The London-based human rights group Amnesty International has concluded that Israel has met the legal threshold for the crime of genocide during its conflict with Gaza, marking the first such determination made during an active armed conflict. This accusation follows months of analyzing incidents and statements from Israeli officials, aligning with the 1948 Genocide Convention's definition. Israel has staunchly rejected these accusations, maintaining that it is defending itself against the Hamas attack from Gaza on October 7th, 2023.
The London-based human rights group said it reached the conclusion after months of analysing incidents and statements of Israel i officials. Amnesty said the legal threshold for the crime had been met, in its first such determination during an active armed conflict.
Israel launched its air and ground war in Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities across the border 14 months ago, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. At hearings earlier this year before the UN’s International Court of Justice in The Hague, where Israel faces accusations of genocide brought by South Africa, lawyers for the country denied the charge. They argued that there was no genocidal intent and no genocide in Israel’s conduct of the war, whose stated objective is the eradication of Hamas.
Amnesty said it concluded that Israel and the Israeli military committed at least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention, namely killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a protected group's physical destruction.
Ms Callamard said Amnesty had not set out to prove genocide but after reviewing the evidence and statements collectively, she said the only conclusion was that “Israel is intending and has intended to commit genocide”.
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