Israel is carrying out a genocide in the Gaza Strip, a new report by Amnesty International has concluded. The report, titled ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza is based on research and legal analysis carried out since October 2023 and concludes that Israel’s war on the enclave is being carried out with “the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza”.
Amnesty International is arguably the highest profile rights group to conclude Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the definition of genocidal acts as laid out under the Genocide Convention.
As per a report by the Middle East Eye, the report involved interviews with 212 people, including survivors of, and witnesses to, Israeli air strikes, victims of displacement and detention, and victims of Israel’s strangulation of aid deliveries.
Speaking at a press conference in the Hague on Thursday, Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said that Israel was creating a “nightmare” for Palestinian in the Gaza Strip.
“The state of Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” she said, adding that this was an “unequivocal” conclusion by Amnesty.
“We do not come to that conclusion lightly, politically or preferentially.”
She said Israel’s claims to its allies and others that its attack on Gaza was a legitimate response to the “horrific crimes” carried out by Hamas were not legitimate.
“That assertion simply does not stand up to scrutiny,” she said.
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