More than a year into Israel’a assault on Gaza, Amnesty International joined those who have been calling it the crime of genocide against the Palestinian population.
The leading human rights group Amnesty International has said what United Nations experts, national leaders, and historians have been arguing for months: that Israel’s massive assault on Gaza amounts to the crime of genocide against the Palestinian population.
Amnesty, which had sharply criticized Israel’s U.S.-backed war but stopped short of labeling it genocide, detailed its findings in a sprawling new report released Wednesday titled, “’You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.”
The 296-page document features interviews with survivors and witnesses of Israel’s large-scale campaign of bombing, displacement, arbitrary detention and destruction of Gaza’s agricultural land and civilian infrastructure, interviews supplemented by an analysis of satellite imagery, video footage, and other visual evidence.
Israeli authorities, the group said, did not respond substantively to any of its inquiries between October 2023 — when the assault on Gaza began in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel — and October 2024. The report does, however, include quotes from Israeli officials and soldiers, including one who declared that “there is no innocence in Gaza.” (more...)
Chorus Calling it Genocide Grows
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