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Related: About this forumAmnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
December 5, 2024
Amnesty Internationals research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report published today.
The report, You Feel Like You Are Subhuman: Israels Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity.
Amnesty Internationals report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. 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, said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.
States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide. All states with influence over Israel, particularly key arms suppliers like the USA and Germany, but also other EU member states, the UK and others, must act now to bring Israels atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza to an immediate end.
Over the past two months the crisis has grown particularly acute in the North Gaza governorate, where a besieged population is facing starvation, displacement and annihilation amid relentless bombardment and suffocating restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid.
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Mosby
(17,634 posts)They have no shame. I'll post an excellent anaysis later today.
lapucelle
(19,569 posts)on page 101 of the report.
The report states that they found the actual, statutory definition in the text of the Geneva Convention overly cramped.
They cribbed and cobbled together decontextualized phrases from an IJC dissenting opinion from an earlier case (Croatia v Serbia) and came up with their own definition.
AloeVera
(2,010 posts)Let's ignore the clear evidence and the starving, disease-ridden children because there is some DEFINITION issue.
Today Human Rights Watch came out with a report that also found Israel guilty of genocide. They concluded that Israel intentionally inflicted on the Palestinian population in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part, an act of genocide. Their report focused on the intentional restrictions of WATER.
I mean bombing water reservoirs and water pipes, sewage and desalination plants, cutting off water flows - how is that self-defence??
It is not. It is intentionally creating conditions to cause mass human suffering, and physical destruction of a people. GEN-O-CIDE.
Denial of this awful truth is just sickening.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/israel-accused-of-act-of-genocide-over-restriction-of-gaza-water-supply-human-rights-watch